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...Boogie Nights auteur Paul Thomas Anderson says, Reynolds was more than "the coolest guy on the planet"; in Deliverance and Starting Over, "Burt also had great chops as an actor." The athletic grace, caged intensity and wounded dignity are on display in Boogie Nights, but so is Reynolds' status as '70s icon--once tarnished, now burnished...
...question of the sphere's origin is left unanswered at the end of the film--along with a lot of other loose ends--but it's really no mystery. It probably came from the Forbidden Planet, a realm first explored in the classic 1956 sci-fi adventure movie. Its inhabitants had mastered the technique of invading people's minds, prying their darkest passions out of them and turning them back on their victims. Obviously Hoffman's character isn't the only figure involved with Sphere who has a good memory for the classic tropes of dystopian...
...camp classic: Charlton Heston is The Omega Man(1971). The part must have a dream for Chuck: as the last man on Earth after a biological weapon decimates the human race, he gets to chew a whole lot of scenery all by himself. Then he gets to save the planet. Sure, it wears a little thin when you see make-up streaks on the pale-faced night mutants. And the race-relations moral is ham-fisted. But if you're a Heston fan (and CP knows you are), this post-apocalyptic nightmare offers a decent thrill -- and a few chuckles...
Okay, so maybe the divine-retribution solution went out of style with the Book of Job. And maybe Harvard students are among the least likely persons on the planet to accept explanations involving deities of any sort. Yet RSI remains extremely disquieting, not only because it affects so many of us, but because it seems specifically designed to stunt our success. Of course, afflictions appropriate for Harvard students could have come in many forms. Harvard might have been plagued by Discussion Muteness Syndrome, in which long periods of babbling without frequent breaks would leave seminar jocks with stunted tongues, prevented...
Alarcon: After the disappearance of the socialist world, you had to deal with the real world or move to another planet. While it is true that we have some things in our reality that are not to our liking--the dual economy, the circulation of dollars--that was done out of necessity. But it is something that we should try to eliminate, the sooner the better...