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...Star Wars” prequels, the teenaged girls who watched and re-watched “Titanic” with their friends, and the office workers gathered around the water cooler all illustrate the social importance of the blockbuster; though the form may fall in and out of favor, it is too socially vital to ever go extinct...
Populating this work of six short stories is a quirky collection of characters that are memorable and touching. He eschews the “dumb American” stereotype in favor of complex lost souls threaded together by their ties to Central Asia...
...will remind all those in favor of granting religious exemptions of the Supreme Court decision Employment v. Smith. In it, the Court decided to punish two Native Americans who smoked peyote in religious rituals because granting exemptions to drug law on the basis of religion “would open the prospect of constitutionally required exemptions from civic obligations of almost every conceivable kind.” While this ruling would not necessarily be applicable to Massachusetts State law, the principle is still relevant. If Massachusetts concedes to Catholic charities, it will have to consider granting exemptions to other religious...
...just going to a restaurant and talking. People are just impatient with the distance between a movie coming to your local theater and the DVD being available at Blockbuster, and Hollywood is listening to that impatience. Although I have to go on record saying that I am not in favor of a DVD coming out the same day as the film opens, because I really believe that the average home system is far inferior to a movie house. And a lot of it is the social magic of going out to the movies, seeing it with a lot of people...
...touch a couple of buttons and move an arrow key and suddenly recut my film to be able to see the background better on a smaller screen. If it's an interactive movie that allows the audience complete control, that's not my business. But I am not in favor of movies that I make being so malleable in the hands of an audience, where they are able to kind of recut it and redo it and remake...