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Perhaps these outbreaks of irrationality should be expected in an age in which, 70 years after the Scopes "Monkey Trial," many Fundamentalists are trying to force schools to teach the crank "science" of creationism. And what should we expect of an age in which John Mack, a Harvard professor of psychiatry, publishes a book on the abduction of humans by aliens--he is particularly fascinated with the way aliens inseminate our womenfolk--and...What? Is fired? Denied tenure? Hardly. Finds himself with a best seller, a spot on Oprah and a fistful of Rockefeller-family research money...
...duty to empathize becomes a burden. She too often minimizes Mapplethrope's sociopathic impulses, which appeared early on in childhood, when, according to the book, he took delight in killing his pets. Morrisroe also gives a bizarre account of the older Mapplethorpe's torture and starvation of his pets monkey, Scrath, whose skull he kept as a souvenir after the animal's death. Too often, these disturbing incidents are attributed to the various social pressures that Mapplethrope faced: Catholicism, his parents, his background. To be sure, much of the artist's behavior was supposed to be part...
...most places people are happy to retire; it's like putting down their monkey wrenches in a factory. When the age rose to 70, they still retired at 65," Vagts adds...
...least one of the films in the series ("Natural Born Killers") faced opposition not simply on the basis of its artistic or educational merit but on the question of the public welfare: the old argument of monkey-see, monkey-do. But, in truth, whether, say, "Reservoir Dogs" leads to a rash of sloppy plastic surgery set to cheesy 70's music depends most immediately on the mental state of the viewer than anything else. For the careful viewer, then, the series best illustrates the potential for careful filmmakers to apply sex and violence as particularly powerful tools of cinema (most...
...flash-back memory and a courageous street-crossing help Skunk Guy learn to stop drooling all over the place, but somehow it doesn't really matter. The inventive costumes (especially a certain breast-squeezing machine and a Torah-reading monkey-device) keep the 14 minute short just barely above water...