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...much harder to explain my regard for Bug. I mean, eclectic as I pretend to be, I don't much care for horror movies, especially the currently endemic teen-slasher variety. But I saw William Friedkin's movie many months ago and it has haunted me ever since. For reasons best known to the addled-geniuses of movie marketing, it's being thrown against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost...
...EXPLAIN WHY EVERYONE'S SINGING In Once and Dreamgirls, the main characters are musicians, giving them perfectly plausible reasons for walking down the street singing, as opposed to, say, Gene Kelly, who never needed an excuse to curl up to a lamppost and croon. "I wanted to make something naturalistic," says John Carney, who wrote and directed Once after a stint as The Frames' bass player, in part because he thinks his 16-year-old niece's generation has dismissed the movie musical genre as uncool. "It's a shame people are missing out," Carney says. He's onto something...
...from, say, a practical Army Corps plan but from a soaring design by the Spaniard Santiago Calatrava. It would be silly to suggest these projects were built with gays in mind--the Koolhaas theater is largely funded by Republicans Charles and Dee Wyly--but the architectural ornamentation does help explain why Dallas is more appealing to gays than, say, dowdy Austin. Gays who felt insecure in small Southwestern and Southern towns like the one where I grew up have long been drawn to this city of great yearning and ostentation. It was in one of Dallas' busy gay bars, ironically...
...When I was on the Ivy Policy committee I used to be the guy who would explain some of the highly technical problems [the AI] has as a statistical instrument,” Lewis says. “But the basic idea of using it to ensure representativeness is exactly right. The Ivy presidents were smart to adopt it and to keep using it. It’s one of the things that keeps the Ivy League with an athletic program of which we can be proud...
Gross promised to create a Web site this summer that would explain “what constitutes improper behavior...