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...JFK, right...
...film--again, like JFK--struggles with its attempt to analyze history, too often romanticizing the past. For example, JFK's assassination is highly stylized: slow motion photography, with a beautiful Judy Collins rendition of "Amazing Grace" in the background, lends great spirituality to the event. However, this excess is unnecessary given the emotional and spiritual power Kennedy's assassination already commands over the American psyche...
Protests have been aimed specifically at some of Hollywood's biggest and most prestigious films, including The Silence of the Lambs, which features a crazed transvestite who kills and flays women, and JFK, which has a scene in which gays alleged to be conspirators in the Kennedy assassination cavort in sadomasochistic fun and games. No movie, however, has provoked more outrage in the gay community than Basic Instinct, the box-office hit in which Michael Douglas plays a troubled detective who falls in love with a mystery writer (Sharon Stone) who is one of three bisexual or lesbian women suspected...
Loews Janus Cinema--57 JFK St., HarvardSquare...
Money, Markets and Motivation: Will the Values of the 80s Serve Us Adequately in the 90s?--by Derek Bok, former president, Harvard University. KSG, Arco Forum, 79 JFK...