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Fred Hood '01 is simply outstanding as Wilde. No accent slips endangered this Brit, and his stage presence, one of self-righteous arrogance, convincingly meets the delivery demands of Wilde's clever epigrams. Yet Hood is just as equally successful as a lovesick Wilde, willing to do anything for Lord...

Author: By Nichole B. Usher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: An Aestheticist's Anguish | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

The last two must-see religious-themed Buñuel films draw their plotlines from actual historical events. "Simon of the Desert" (1965) is a low-budget production about a holy man who lives in a remote part of the desert, perched on a high pillar. The devil comes to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Not-So-Discreet Charm of Luis Buñuel | 11/30/2000 | See Source »

At the Charenton Insane Asylum, the Marquis de Sade (Geoffrey Rush) has a nice life--good food, good wine, the ability to smuggle his dirty books out to his publisher via a sympathetic chambermaid (Kate Winslet). But he offends Napoleon, who orders an alienist (Michael Caine) to cure him or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft-Gore Porn | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

No one talks about these things, in part, because we assume that pornography has always been with us--from the cave paintings of Lascaux through the priapic statues of Greece and Rome and the fevered scribblings of the Marquis de Sade. But what we are witnessing, in the age of...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: The Pornographic Revolution | 10/30/2000 | See Source »

www.somanintheknow.com. It's the Signet's worst nightmare...Now that her three sons have all left home for good, my poor mom is suffering empty nest syndrome. First she becomes an Oprah book club devotee and now she's turning to religion. I'm afraid she's going to join...

Author: By Soman S. Chainani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: In the (K)now | 10/27/2000 | See Source »

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