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...Daily Show - He wasn't satisfied telling off the Crossfire gang. Now Jon Stewart brings on schoolchildren to impersonate pundits like Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly
What on earth is taking place? Over here, ten teenage kids in green tops and white miniskirts are jerking their heads into the air, then locking elbows, back to back, to form a herd of lurching pushmi-pullyus. Over there, a gang of pink-lipsticked, sunglassed young blonds, in matching scarlet outfits, have gathered in a circle around a giant radio and are joining together in a chorus of banshee wails. And all about, twirling, swirling, waving their hands in the air Al Jolson-style or vaulting on top of one another's shoulders are girls with turquoise streaks...
Seeking protection and status, many inmates join gang syndicates such as the Bloods, the Mexican Mafia and the Aryan Brotherhood, whose inflexible ethic of vengeance ensures that no knife attack can ever be the last. "The guards can't solve all this fighting," laments one convicted murderer, Kenneth Foutenette. "The only solution is the inmates." Says William Charles, a lanky con in his 20s serving an eight-year sentence: "It's fighting for race. They stab someone, and we get 'em back." Above Charles' sink, like a battle flag, hangs the distinctive red kerchief of the Bloods, a major gang...
...1940s of Chow's teeming fantasy, Shanghai is terrorized by the Axe Gang, a thug team as dapper as they are vicious: they don black suits and top hats, and rumba to a rumble. Only one area, Pig Sty Alley, is temporarily immune to their predations--in part because the neighborhood is so poor, in part because all the residents, from the baker and the tailor to the kids and seniors, are skilled in martial arts. The Landlady (Yuen Qiu), spuming belligerence, can suck a cigarette to cinders in one deep breath, and has a lion's roar scream that...
...video, however, is a thing of beauty. Shot in stunning black and white, it features a plot straight out of “Our Gang.” Three smooth-cheeked youngsters, their faces painted like Pagliacci, sneak out to a downtown dance club...