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Among other honors, Steiner serves as a fellow of the British Academy, is a recipient of France’s Legion of Honor and the Truman Capote Lifetime Achievement Award, and has been named an honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...
...like all great movies, works on its own terms, as art, but it’s also a historical document reflecting the times in which it was made. Rejigging these movies to be inoffensive to a new legion of fans ruins them: It desecrates the art and eliminates the history. Why not take all that racism out of Mark Twain? Huckleberry Finn: Special Edition...
...calls to America: the current trendiness of rave culture, led by superstar DJs and corporate entities, and 1997’s “electronica” craze. The latter saw a flurry of sensationalist stories in music magazines that envisioned the rock paradigm being overtaken by a legion of keyboard-wielding techno-freaks, in some kind of premillennial musical cyborg invasion. The truth was that artists like Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers themselves represented a rock-happy crossover breed, integrating elements from rave culture in order to fashion radio-friendly pop music, and that meanwhile, the music?...
...album begins with the brooding and thudding riff of “Gets Me Through,” a song dedicated to Ozzy’s legion of committed fans, to whom he says, “I’m not the anti-Christ or the Iron Man / I try to entertain you the best I can / But I still love the feeling I get from you / I hope you’ll never stop cause / It gets me through...
...wears dark socks, sensible shoes, an unfashionable red sweater and, if anyone would notice, her heart on its sleeve. A waitress at the Two Windmills cafe in Paris, Amelie Poulain (Audrey Tautou) is one of the legion of shy solitaries that few people seek out and fewer movies think to put at their center. But inside this gamine child of 23 is a priestess of the imagination, a ruthless schemer, a canny do-gooder, a lover. She has mischief in her, and a kind of secular sainthood...