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...original Battle Royale set off a maelstrom even before it hit the screens in December 2000. Based on a popular 1999 novel by Koushun Takami, the film's graphic, almost gleeful violence, most of it perpetrated by school kids against each other, provided an easy target for conservative politicians eager to blame pop culture for a youth-crime wave sweeping the country. The free publicity boosted Battle Royale to a stratum of box-office success usually reserved for cartoons and TV-drama spin-offs. The film raked in $25 million in Japan alone?a formidable haul, given the depressed state...
...once and for all. Only the knowledge that he is a clean liver these days, has a home and a beautiful, rich wife in Switzerland and is still picking up big gigs around the world, suggests that he's more than a match for his demons. That and the gleeful giggle that accompanies his every phrase. "We'll have a good time, don't you worry," he promises. It was the same voices in Perry's head that sent him to Kingston to make music in 1961. Jamaica's capital was in ferment at the time, buoyed by imminent independence...
...rehearsal on Kiss Me, Kate, the main production staff—co-directors Beatrice E. Kitzinger ’03 and Julia A. Griffin ’03 and choreographer Caitlin C. Gillespie ’05—appear anything but worn down. They are, in fact, gleeful...
...Thermals describe themselves. And seriously, how can a group of four twenty-somethings who laugh heartily at the Simpsons, refer to their fellow opening act Circle and Square as “Circle and SquarePants” and swap children’s stories with gleeful abandon be anything but adorable? Guitarist Ben Barnett even sports a tattoo of a ridiculously cute purple rhino from the children’s story “Peanut Butter Rhino...
...American id; you catch it, for example, in the talk-show braying about various ingeniously horrible ways that the U.S. ought to be torturing Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. (I have been trying to decide how much anti-Arab bigotry goes into this: Would the braying be as graphic and gleeful if the terrorist were a Whiffenpoof? Maybe...