Word: notionalism
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...Eight drafts!" says Geisel. "There was much I didn't like." On her no-no list was what she calls "sexual" humor that showed up in some drafts. Like what? "Oh, creating a furball," she answers, so disgusted by the notion that she refuses to elaborate. "She was really tough on me for a year and a half," says Grazer, "and I wanted to please this woman." Finally, when Geisel saw the finished film, she spoke to the producer with tears in her eyes: "Ted would have loved it so much...
Bamboozled, which screened at the Harvard Film Archive Saturday afternoon, takes a satirical look at the notion of minstrelsy in the 21st century. While the film explores the impact of a fictional television program performed in blackface, Lee said that contemporary minstrelsy need not take such obvious forms...
...What the weather focus does do is reinforce the notion that the election is so close you can't dare change that channel - so close a butterfly flapping its wing in the Amazon jungle could throw Oregon to Bush! Which of course may actually be true this time, but besides driving up ratings, it provides yet more butt-coverage for any unfortunate earlier prognostications. (Last night, many of the pundits were practically giving the election to Bush. If they're proved wrong, they could always blame it on the balmy weather in Miami.) And, during the downtime when polls...
...would want to play the same joke twice, or be the butt of it? Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 arms a new bunch of young people with video cameras, throws them into the Maryland woods and lets hysteria ensue. The notion of director Joe Berlinger and writer Dick Beebe is that the five new recruits (Jeffrey Donovan, Tristen Skyler, Stephen Barker Turner, Erica Leerhsen and Kim Director) know the first film was fake and are cynical of the industry built around it, yet get sucked into the legend. Then everyone goes nuts--this time with flash cuts and gross...
Worse, Terrence McNally's book coarsens what the movie danced around so delicately: the notion that these beefy blue-collar guys would turn into Chippendales dancers to make a buck. There are enough penis jokes to fill a segment of the Howard Stern Show, and some of the new physical gags--one character keeps crashing into walls--look like outtakes from Carry On, Stripper. The result is a long slog to the famous last scene, where the boys get up in front of the town to take it all off. Which they do, in the clever high spot...