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...people remember? Keep in mind that—as the Academy Awards is a multi-hour ceremony that has aired on television more than fifty times—that’s a lot of moments to choose from. In general, it seems, we most enjoy those that make famous people look uncomfortable, stupid, or silly. Take any one of the inevitable bloated, overemotional acceptance speeches—technically constrained by a forty-five second time limit, but which nevertheless regularly result in millions of dollars of wasted airtime...
...Burning Bright.” In “Dead Confederates,” an aging construction worker struggles to pay the bills for his sick mother’s treatments in the hospital and resorts to robbing the graves of dead Civil War officers in order to make ends meet. In “Lincolnites,” an expectant mother fends for herself on a homestead during the Civil War and is forced to kill and bury a Confederate soldier in order to save herself...
...admitted that there was progress to be made to increase the number of “underrepresented minorities”—a category defined by Faust’s letter as African-Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans—on Harvard’s faculty. Those minorities make up only about 6 percent of the University’s ladder faculty, according to the e-mail...
...verisimilitude—’truthiness’, if you will. This aura of truth is just one thread in the tapestry of feelings his films weave in order to provoke a certain emotional reaction. This is how art operates, but it is an unwieldy method to make a nuanced intellectual argument or initiate social change...
Although I hate to say it, bad movies have a right to exist. And even if some political documentaries have made spurious claims, the bad ones have yet to make much impact (with the exception of “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which was counterproductive and galvanized opposition). The problem is that these documentaries are assigned undue importance because they tap into the collective discomfort with distant social menaces, be they eco-unfriendly food production, global warming or (most perplexingly) the corporation. Even worse than the often-slanted presentation of information is the fact that these sensational pictures...