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...Tinseltown's heavies usually throw up their hands and cry, "Not our fault!" The events of Sept. 11 have proved a strange exception. Last week ROBERT ALTMAN, director of the satires MASH, The Player and Dr. T and the Women, almost offered a mea culpa. "The movies set the pattern, and [the terrorists] have copied the movies," he said. "Nobody would have thought to commit an atrocity like that unless they'd seen it in a movie." That self-flagellation comes on the heels of remarks by JFK director OLIVER STONE in which he called the attacks a "revolt" against...
...list goes on, and the portraits are all agreeable to look upon. Cash, with his guitar jutting out of the page, is an interesting contrast to the placid Belafonte. But it is a juxtaposition that you will have to come to yourself—there is not a discernible pattern to the exhibit. The show’s lack of an overall theme reaches a low point with the four self-portraits of Jeffry one happens upon in the midst of things...
...acquainted with The Shawshank Redemption these scenes will seem very familiar. Remember the prisoners who placed bets on Andy? Well, those same gamblers are present here, eagerly making bets on when the general will commit suicide. From this point on, The Last Castle follows a fairly predictable pattern: scene from a famous film that has been slightly changed, predictable story, clichéd character development, another scene from a famous film that has been slightly altered. In the end the film plays like a cross between The Shawshank Redemption, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Cool Hand...
...predict this pattern will stop. In an offensive shootout, led by Neil Rose for Harvard and Gavin Hoffman for Penn, the Quakers have the advantage. Right now, Penn has the higher-rated defense. But by the time the squad rolls into Cambridge in November, Penn will have faced some of the tougher teams in the league. Barring any new injuries, the Crimson ought to be in better shape. For once, Harvard ought to escape with a last-second victory...
...become happy, / you told me, you’d stopped writing poems, / I should wish you a long silence.” The next piece, significantly, is Murray’s take on the transformation of music in the modern day, written in a purposely unmelodic rhyming pattern, “the hypnotic one like weed-smoke at a party / and the muscular one out of farty / cars that goes Whudda Whudda...