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Although these groups are for the greater part ethnically homogeneous, many do boast the odd member who is not of the predominant race. “In my time, [the BMF] hasn’t been limited to black men,” says Hamilton, “Our social chair is Latino. It’s very much about where your heart is and where your mind is. And how you’re viewed and judged by your peers.” April D. Youpee-Roll ’08, president of Native Americans at Harvard College, says...
...agree that Steve Martin is the only standup comic to have made truly good films? - Michael West, Copenhagen, Denmark That's an odd question. I believe a lot of standup comedians are making truly great films. There's a lot of comedians along with Steve Martin who have made truly great films: Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler, Jim Carrey, to name a few, Woody Allen, Albert Brooks...
When I was growing up, there was a book in our house that my brother and sister and I all read. It was a very odd book, a rattlebag of art, mathematics, music, philosophy, symbolic logic, computers, genetics, paradoxes, palindromes and Zen koans among many, many other things. Most of it went way over my head--my precocious older sister, who later became a mathematician, and even later a sculptor, was the real target audience--but it was playfully written and deeply weird and off-the-charts smart and generally just the thing for a household of pretentious, alienated adolescents...
...Stooges’ first release in 30-odd years, “The Weirdness,” lives up to its name—it’s a little weird. Once known as the forerunners of punk, the band seems—on first listen—to have absorbed the musical styles of just about every trend-setting artist of the last two decades. Filled with fast beats and poppy guitar melodies, “The Weirdness,” while maintaining the key elements of the band’s sound, has a distinctly modern feel...
...down throughout the course of the two weeks. Glenn Howerton gives the weakest performance as the youngest son and a full-grown baby, completely dependent on his witch of a wife,. The relationship between Sally Field and her husband—stepfather to the four kids—is odd in that it is completely non-existent. Although he complains about being cast aside, he makes absolutely no effort to spend time with his dying wife, making one question why his character exists at all. The film is shot like a documentary on death, and it alternates between the current...