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...this album is not only for dick joke affecionados, there is somehing for everyone on Wry. Or at least, something to offend everyone. Mr. Rollins is irreverent in an indiscriminate, egalitarian, and above all, determined way: No one and nothing is sacred, not even his hero Ozzy Osborne. So, if you can be offended, he will offend you. Be warned. Political correctness is not on this man’s agenda. Although this is not his best material and an audio recording misses the intrinsic humor of a man that size and build mocking himself and everything in sight (rent...
...Greatest Generation Needs No Masked Hero...
...Dalits, or "the oppressed") have become more politically aware and assertive thanks to education and government jobs, and Ambedkar has been resurrected as their rallying symbol. Patel's film on Ambedkar is drawing large Dalit audiences, and the screenings are like political carnivals. The audience identifies completely with the hero, cheers him wildly at every opportunity and hurls insults at his opponents?especially Gandhi. Many watch the film with tears in their eyes...
...teeth removed, subsisting on bread and milk and fettered by a painful noose through its nose. They shouldn't behave like Girdhari Lal, a bear who knows all the standard stunts. How does a movie heroine walk? The bear stands on his hind legs and sways seductively. A hero? The bear swaggers. Show us how to smoke a cigarette? The beast puffs on a bamboo stick. And are you going to claw these nice people watching you? He shakes his head. "These animal rights people don't understand," says Girdhari Lal's owner, Husain Ali. "We love our animals...
Pierce Brosnan's Andy Osnard is the anti-Bond--a cold cynic in need of a revolution to revive his career as a secret agent. Geoffrey Rush is the anti-hero, creating an imaginary insurgency out of the rumors he picks up while fitting bespoke clothing in his elite, near bankrupt shop. There's a nice irony in the way their needs feed each other, but the movie works it too hard, and when the revolution turns real, the film finally collapses under the burden of implausibility...