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...series of ads painting the Democrats as sex-crazed, homosexual-loving, porn-perusing-and in the case of the novelist and Virginia Senate candidate Jim Webb, porn-writing-perverts. It was vivid proof that the prospect of a hanging doesn't always concentrate the mind. Sometimes it leads to feral, piss-pants desperation...
...Those who thought Australia's cultural sophistication, great food, inventiveness and prosperity were put at risk by a preternaturally eager bloke who wrestled crocodiles will not let him rest. Nor will the defenders of traditional Aussie values. The cultural warriors are fighting over the correct way to classify the feral Irwin. But during these days of brand marketing, what is the harm if people think Australians are excitable, love the outdoors and are high on life? Or that Australia is all frontier, with alien wildlife, dusty roads and a torrid climate? Why not let people hold those exotic thoughts, even...
...picnic either, as petty crook Earl Hickey (Jason Lee, below right) learns in this sitcom. Hit by a car after winning the lottery, he decides to repair his Karma by righting every wrong he's done. With naive teddy-bear brother Randy (Ethan Suplee, above left), his feral, conniving ex-wife (Jaime Pressly) and her sweetly spacey new husband (Eddie Steeples), he ineptly cuts a swath of penance through his small town. Earl is a cartoony fella--he perpetually looks as if he just lost a battle with the Road Runner--but Lee gives him a mellow decency. This story...
...chemistry between actor and director--the expression of one person's vision through another's physical force--was primal in the work of Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune, whose lithe, feral magnetism animated the great Japanese director's most vigorous parables. The titles in this Criterion package are legendary: The Seven Samurai, The Hidden Fortress, Yojimbo and Sanjuro. These ferocious epics were often adapted into better-known films in the West--The Magnificent Seven, A Fistful of Dollars, Star Wars--none of which matched the artistry and machismo of the originals...
...school initiated to stem the problem of violence among its girls. And Club Ophelia is just one of a few programs in the U.S. that educators are putting in place to tame a group of girls who--to hear teachers and psychologists tell it--have suddenly found their feral side...