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...Dylan, after the poet Dylan Thomas; but it was still the gesture of a would-be old-fashioned movie star. He told his new friends that he'd run away from home as a kid, lived as a hobo, joined the circus, traveled to many states (all a fiction). He started his musical life as a singer of traditional ballads, then updated the folk-protest genre pioneered by his idol Woody Guthrie, then ditched that genre for songs of betrayal and alienation, then went electric and created folk rock. That's four careers in four years: more public-persona reinventions...
...anxieties, the movie was panned by critics who found it reprehensible - "Poisonous incitement to do-it-yourself law enforcement," Variety proclaimed - and wildly garish. "This doesn't look like 1974," Roger Ebert wrote of Death Wish at the time, "but like one of those bloody future cities in science-fiction novels about anarchy in the twenty-first century...
...make my concentration choice, I remember stopping by the English Department’s open house with my fellow pre-frosh over a year ago, only beginning to know what a concentration was. Amid the flyers and pamphlets, I wondered aloud to a department member why so much British fiction was required, and if that would be changing anytime soon. Her smile suddenly disappeared. “Well, it is English and American Literature…” she replied...
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...when Harvey Weinstein, the indie mogul titan who's made a few enemies over the years, stood up, he too was greeted with all cheers, no boos. For Moore's part, he's given the love back to Canadians at least since 1995, when he made his only fiction film, the war satire Canadian Bacon, here. He shot his TV series The Awful Truth in the Great White North, and visited Canada to make admiring contrasts to the U.S. in Bowling for Columbine and Sicko. "By now I'm sure you're tired of my overappreciation of Canada," he told...