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...More cynicism, O Lord! As in Philadelphia, the sanctimony thickeneth...
...Grazer puts it), wears his hair in a ponytail and absolutely loves apes. He wore his own monkey suits in The Incredible Shrinking Woman and the remakes of King Kong and Mighty Joe Young. He designed the primates in Gorillas in the Mist and Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes...
...Survivor," contestants must engage in alliances and pacts, canvass support, lobby and horse-trade. Corny as its Trader Vic's-meets-"Lord of the Flies" aesthetic may be, the Tribal Council shows "delegates" forced to weigh which individuals are most indispensable to their "party" before casting their votes in a ballot whose outcome can, at the last moment, defy all predictions. In other words, "Survivor" represents real, unscripted politics, whose Darwinian ethic shows humans at their best and worst...
...earlier books, rescuing Harry from some summer suffering at the home of the Dursleys, his dreadful Muggle (nonmagical human) relatives; transporting him and his two best friends Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger to the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry; and then exposing the hero to another threat from Lord Voldemort, the fearsome Dark wizard who murdered his parents but mysteriously failed to kill the one-year-old Harry at the same time...
...that life is an elimination contest, that difference means discord. The Real World is a sort of teen-friendly Adam-and-Eve story--seven young people, set up in a coolly furnished paradise, are bound to screw it up. Survivor and Big Brother change the reference from Genesis to Lord of the Flies and No Exit. But if what they show can be ugly, it's insulting to the audience to assume viewers must take this as a model for life--that's like saying Chinatown is an immoral movie because the bad guy gets away. The argument...