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Jacobs has a healthy respect for grandmothers' folk remedies and for unconventional therapies in general. He comes by it naturally. For though he is a conventionally trained pediatrician, he is also the son of a part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs and tonics whenever he and his two brothers and sister had a fever or bellyache. "There would always be long-necked bottles filled with liquids sitting on a shelf in the closet, and a few bags of dried leaves -- turtle socks and other things -- that could be brewed into foul...
With an M.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, Jacobs is a bona fide member of the Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
With so much violence, and so many landscapes,and music so loud, the movie entirely fails tohang together. There are forced political moments,like an arbitrary lacrosse game among Mohawk andwhite children or the villainous Huron Magua (WesStudi, who does a pretty good job) taking time outto name the wrongs whites have done him. There areexplosions and waterfalls and panthers lurking inthe bushes. There is even a canoe chase. Howoverdone is it? The credits list ten tattooartists...
Izzy was sitting at the top of the T escalators, taking shelter from the rain. He was sporting a leather jacket covered with leopard-spotted fur that matched his dark spotted bleached-blond hair. A bright-red mohawk ran down the middle of his leopard hair. Greasy black jeans, patched many times over at the crotch completed his outfit...
...sight of the spot where Jan Palach set himself on fire for Czechoslovak freedom in 1969, the spot where Havel laid flowers in 1989 and was arrested for the deed. Now a deadpan sword swallower resembling Leonid Brezhnev draws a crowd of American children, and punkers with spiked Mohawk haircuts wander the medieval lanes...