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...another with guns, grenades and other weapons. But he says the violence is "not that bad. It's really just for fun." Alex's dad Scott doesn't have a problem with his son playing the game and says, "He's 16. He can certainly separate reality from the fiction of those things...
...world of letters. When she was still in her early 30s, publishing essays in influential little journals like Partisan Review, she emerged as the intellectual plenipotentiary of American cultural life, militantly contemporary, insatiable in her appetite for culture and truly, madly, deeply conversant with every new development in fiction, philosophy, film and art. With the great turbines of her critical judgment turning, Sontag patrolled the latest edges of world culture, bringing back news of the philosophers Simone Weil and Walter Benjamin, the novelist Witold Gombrowicz, the critic Roland Barthes, the filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard...
...left-field victory of ?Fahrenheit? told moviegoers that a non-fiction film could make them laugh and cry. It also energized the documentary community, which is reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...
...Together, the year?s fistful of contentious new political films formed a burgeoning non-fiction genre: the agit-doc. They ranged from specifically anti-Dubya tracts like ?Bush?s Brain? (about Presidential Advisor Karl Rove) and ?Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War? (military and intelligence nabobs deconstructing the Bush war rationale) to ?The Hunting of the President? (detailing the Right?s long campaign to destroy Bill Clinton). They covered the media?s coverage of Iraq in ?Control Room? (a sympathetic look at the Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack...
...other times, in other elections, liberals might stew morosely and withdraw. Not in 2004. First the Left got angry at itself for letting the White House slip away, then it firmly resolved not to let it happen again. So the non-fiction film unit of the progressive movement flooded movie and computer screens with talking points for Kerry voters and fence-sitters alike...