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...Surrealists loved bad movies, seeing them as subversive attacks on the tyranny of narrative form. What would they have made of Edward D. Wood's horrifyingly inept cine-poems - or of Oscar Micheaux's melodramas, with black actors in whiteface? - J. Hoberman in "Bad Movies," Film Comment, July-August...
...perhaps looking in the wrong direction? Maybe it isn't the day care that makes the difference but the parents. Perhaps parents whose children are in day care are very stressed out, busy and preoccupied when at home, and therefore the children develop demanding behaviors. PEARL O. HOBERMAN Teaneck...
...just at this time, movie revisionists discovered Ed Wood. For the 1980 Golden Turkey Awards, Wood was voted "The Worst Director of All Time," and Plan 9 "The Worst Film of All Time." Critic J. Hoberman, in the book Midnight Movies, proclaimed Wood "the ultimate cult director, the terminal manifestation of 'expressive esoterica.' " Glen or Glenda showed up on the late-night circuit, and soon much of the auteur's awful oeuvre was available on videocassette. Now Wood, anonymous in life, is notorious in death. He wrote but did not direct Orgy of the Dead; yet the video box ballyhoos...
Political ideology is certainly relevant or the entire faculty of the Government Department would be unemployed. Why, then, should the mention of sport degenerate any discipline to that of superficiality? It shouldn't. And even though the subject taught by Hoberman required no calculators, it is nonetheless important...
...grades given in the course, all one needs to know is that Hoberman is tough but fair, forcing the students to formulate their own ideas--albeit ones the Hoberman originally posed himself...