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...rich target for coarse cartooning. Yardstick also protests that it is ahistorical to view Columbus through the lens of today’s moral standards. It is the kind of work that pop historians have done for years with their Troubled Genius biographies: Kepler was a nut, Hemingway was a drunk, and don’t get us started on Rousseau...
...Robert S. Frischling ‘02 has one nut...
...their colored blazers, men and women who shout for a living, silently grasping at each other with tears in their eyes. Men in suits with flag ties and slumped shoulders, sucking forlornly on a cigarette or a cup of coffee. Scattered halves of cell-phone conversation - "Jimmy?s a nut case now? No, I don?t feel like eating today...
...Korean film. Jason Chae is trying to change that. Working as a cinema journalist in the mid-'90s, he was dismayed to find Korean flicks overshadowed by Japanese and Chinese entries at international festivals because nobody was bothering to promote them. Chae, who grew up as a movie nut, set up Mirovision in 1998, the first company to promote and sell Korean movies overseas. "We needed to do something besides just make the films," says Chae. "Nobody was doing international sales and promotion." He got the ball rolling by putting filmmakers in touch with buyers abroad whom...
...concentrated in lowball comedy. Action movies like The Score are tired and talky. Romantic comedy like America's Sweethearts is as flat as yesterday's bottled water. And judging by The Others, even ghosts are turning into gormless dinner guests who have outstayed their welcome. Only the very occasional nut case, like Rat Race, has conviction and divinely orchestrated lunacy. This may (or may not) say something about the pathology of our everyday life. But the faith that is driving the Rat Race characters through their uncharitable activities is pure greed and pure solipsism...