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...movie about movies--spoiled film fatale Honey Whitlock (Melanie Griffith) is taken hostage by a cinematic liberation army led by a dreamy buff who calls himself Cecil B. DeMented (Stephen Dorff)--an air of fantasy permeates the entire jape, detoxifying it. There's a geniality to gags about ratings ("Hey, hey, M.P.A.A., how many movies did you censor today?") and Robin Williams weepies ("Patch Adams does not deserve a director's cut; the original was long enough"). Waters wants everyone to have a good laugh, targets and audience included...
...Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV, he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing: "That's crazy...Good pictures...Hey, they got that right for a change...
...burying affirmative action the signature cause of the G.O.P.? Didn't this party just two weeks ago vote in Congress to sabotage Clinton's request for more teacher hirings and school construction? Forget reality. With a raucous Chaka Khan, with rappers and wrestlers and a rocking gospel choir (hey, these Republicans do have rhythm), critics had taken to comparing the convention to a Utah Jazz home game, where everyone in the stands is white and most of the performers are black. I left a message for Powell asking whether he might have been used as just another prop in this...
...only 34, McWhorter is being touted by his publisher as a maverick "more angry than Stephen Carter, more pragmatic and compassionate than Shelby Steele, more forward-looking than Stanley Crouch." McWhorter says he's uncomfortable being associated with authors acclaimed by white conservatives and slammed by many blacks--but, hey, it goes with the territory. If you're a self-described "proper-talking black guy who's had all the advantages," you've got to expect other blacks to be outraged when you claim that being a "culturally authentic" African American dooms you to being a dunce...
...Hotel, humor and asperity bubbling, TV clicker in hand, scolding the blaring monster screen on which friends and foes from the days of power are babbling about him and W. And while watching TV he is riffling through magazines, offering his own irreverent editing. "That's crazy... good pictures... hey, they got that right for a change...