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...church ceremony at one university-even if it is Harvard-is more like a bone thrown to the gay and lesbian community than it is a burgeoning national commitment to lesbian and gay issues. Marriage is a way for lesbians and gay men to fit in, to mimic the norm. Same-sex marriage is, in fact, quite conservative; there is no radical departure from social mores, just an attempt to integrate those previously excluded into a culture that is unchanged...
...great horror moment, like this one in Guillermo Del Toro's Mimic, works as both pulp and poetry. It gets scare shivers tickling the lay audience while connoisseurs nod sagely at the canonical resonance; think of the creature as Dracula spreading its capelike wings and Sorvino as both a Frankenstein whose experiment went bad and a Fay Wray to the insect world's King Kong. The roach and its sibs are Susan's mutant creations; they have the gift of mimicking other species. If Susan's commando crew doesn't Off the bugs quick, New York could become a slightly...
...doting grandchild in Del Toro's fine 1992 Cronos. The same themes and similar characters show up here; the director is apparently buggy for bugs and for strange, trusting children. For its first hour--up to and including that airborne kidnapping of our heroine--Mimic is a suavely creepy essay in entomophobia. Then the film gets a severe case of the stupes. The creatures keep Susan alive (inexplicable unless she is meant to be mated with the king bug), and they stop evolving into humans (so we never, alas, see the final stage of a really uggy bug-man). Horror...
GIVE ME A SMILE Depressed mothers seem to give birth to babies with similar symptoms--elevated levels of stress hormones, few facial expressions and trouble sleeping. Their brain waves too mimic those of their depressed moms...
...aged politicians too timid for body piercing. Bill Clinton has raised these I'm-so-sorry sermonettes to an art form. The survivors of the Tuskegee, Ala., syphilis experiments and the victims of 1950s radiation research have all been awarded the presidential seal of sorrow. Tony Blair, an adroit mimic, apologized for the Irish potato famine before he even got around to hearing the latest Di-and-Fergie gossip from the Queen...