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...semester of Gadfly comes, like all our Friday nights, to an utterly anticlimactic end. Judging by the dearth of e-mail in our inbox (fmgadfly@yahoo.com for those of you meaning to write), you perused this column about as often as your reading for section. Clearly, being a jackass in print is about as appealing as it is anywhere else...
...film's hero--make that heroid--is Batou, a cyborg detective with a face slashed out of marble and a platitude for every plot twist. "No matter how far a jackass travels," he muses, "it won't come back a horse." Batou encounters lots of fantastic creatures (like the crustaceous Crab Man), elegant vistas (pagoda skyscrapers) and bizarre machines (a plane that resembles both a dragon and Groucho Marx, with a cigar as his nose). It's smart, spectacular, luscious picturizing...
...Hard Rock's Saturday night comedy show, Beacher's Madhouse, is less about jokes than celebrity spotting, audience flashing, contortionists, midgets, monkeys and Jackass-style stunts. "People come to Vegas to release," says Jeffrey Beacher, a comedian who went unnoticed in New York City and now headlines a show it's impossible to get tickets...
...campaign, and Ronald Reagan would probably never have captured the White House in 1980 without his well-honed Hollywood delivery. Moore's filmmaking may be coarse, but it is also incendiary and witheringly derisive - and it could be exactly what a generation of young voters weaned on Jackass and reality TV will respond to. Whatever its impact at home, Fahrenheit 9/11 has only cemented Moore's standing in Europe, where his blunt, truth-teller pose has won him myriad fans and hero status. People know his shortcomings - Le Monde calls Fahrenheit 9/11 "simplistic and often demagogic" - but cheer...
It’s absurd that those votes cast before the season was complete were even accepted. The ballots should have been mailed back with a note reading, “The season’s not over, jackass...