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...workings of popular house music. Of the various remixes, the “Gay Robot” track remains the favorite for DJs to throw against manic dance beats. The consensus among clubgoers seems to be that not only is it funny to listen to an actor portray a suggestive robot, but it’s even more enjoyable to find yourself bopping around on a dance floor to a lame propagation of the stereotypes attached to gay males today...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Review: Shh..Don't Tell | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

...play’s set design, by Benjamin J. Toff ’05, deserves mention for its ingenuity; Toff places TV sets around the stage, which at the appropriate moments show the actors performing additional mini-scenes or ’50s commercials that portray the American lifestyle that Durang parodies. Aside from their humor and thematic appropriateness, the TVs give the audience something to watch during scene changes...

Author: By Alexandra D. Hoffer, ON THEATER | Title: Theater Review: Dysfunctions of Vietnam Return | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

Despite its important role in American history, however, the scene in which two wounded soldiers sing a homesick “Santa Clause Is Coming To Town” in an attempt to portray the horrors of Vietnam might just as well have been left out, given its incongruity with the overall tone of the play and the difficulty of doing justice to that subject matter...

Author: By Emer C.M. Vaughn, ON THEATER | Title: Theater Review: Politics Drive a Whimsical ‘Odyssey’ | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...evangelical Christians--4 million of whom White House adviser Karl Rove believes stayed home on Election Day 2000--George W. Bush said he would work to pass a U.S. constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. But as the race got under way, the Bush campaign had to decide whether to portray Kerry as a committed lefty or a squishy flip-flopper. Though both caricatures were used, the G.O.P. campaign focused far more on the question of whether Kerry could provide steady leadership in uncertain times. Saying that Kerry takes multiple positions has now made it harder to claim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '04: How The Wedge Issues Cut | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

...dreamed of being a princess). But when it comes to making movies, Jean-Pierre Bacri and Agnès Jaoui are a perfect match: they act, they produce, and as a screenwriting team, they are French cinema's sharpest critics of the bourgeois élite, people whose relationships they portray as always on the brink of collapse and whose dinner parties combust into uncivil wars. Bacri and Jaoui have written six films together, but it was 2000's warm comedy Le Goût des Autres (The Taste of Others) - in which a disillusioned businessman falls for an actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dream Duo | 10/24/2004 | See Source »

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