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Junior third baseman Erin Halpenny pounded a double down the left-field line to plate senior Beth Sabin—who had reached on a double of her own—and sophomore Lauren Brown. Brown had to fashion a nifty hook slide to evade the tag at the plate...
...Most directors with a left-field mega-hit would instantly crank out another picture in the same genre. Not Damiano. He used his cash, and cachet, from his silly porno comedy to make a super-serioso drama. Reading the script of Devil in Miss Jones, Reems told his friend: "Gerry, it's a steal. This is No Exit in its thinnest disguise." To which Damiano replied: "Well, what do you expect? I wrote it in a weekend." Though Devil was a substantial box-office hit, Spelvin notes that "it was not really a very successful porno film. I mean, guys...
...singularly devoted to the noise of obsolescent gaming technology. The rainbow electronics and 8-bit rhythms back Mr. Hansen’s characteristic non-sequiturs, just like the chaotic but impeccably-produced sounds of his past ventures into noisy, guitar-driven rock (Odelay) and funk-rooted, accessible but left-field jams (Midnite Vultures...
...left-field victory of ?Fahrenheit? told moviegoers that a non-fiction film could make them laugh and cry. It also energized the documentary community, which is reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...
...direction. While at first, Bad Education is a disturbing examination of Franco-era religious education—weaving between flashbacks of the child Ignacio dealing with a rapist priest and his adult, drag queen incarnation (Gael Garcia Bernal)—it abruptly becomes a noirish melodrama after a left-field revelation involving Ignacio and his suspect motivations...