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The cultural symptoms of the domestic violence epidemic and the levity with which we treat them go beyond hinting at the profundity of the disease: they feed it and perpetuate it. A culture that treats domestic violence as an undesirable but inevitable part of life keeps it inevitable. Abusers find...
DIED. KENNETH BIGLEY, 62, British engineer kidnapped on Sept. 16 in Baghdad by members of an Islamic militant group, Tawhid and Jihad, and beheaded following an apparent escape attempt; in Iraq. Earlier videos showing Bigley in a cage of chicken wire, pleading for the British government to comply with his...
RICHARD AVEDON, WHO DIED LAST WEEK AT 81, USED THE CAMERA AS an all-terrain vehicle. The terrain he crossed was the human form, the social fabric and that permanent terra incognita, the human face. A man so stylish could never escape being dismissed as merely stylish, as though he...
Lansing sees studios gravitating toward emotional stories in 2005 and '06 and away from whizbang effects movies. She's also a big booster of comedies. "When you're worried the world is going to blow up, you want to escape and see something that's funny," she says. "That doesn...
The deeper problem is that Hollywood can’t escape the ages-old right-wing dictum that homosexuality is a perversion. It’s not that the predominantly liberal denizens of the world’s dominating film industry are homophobic. The problem is that by hiding representations...