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...know what the best thing about movie reviewing is? It's the freedom to indulge any cockamamie interest that goes skittering through your brain and pretend that you're working, solemnly patrolling the cultural ramparts, looking for miscreants, saboteurs and other freebooters. Wait long enough and the movies will provide what some people like to call "guilty pleasures," but which are, for the critic, entirely guilt-free. Yes, sometimes it's a bummer - an Irish romance (Once) which looks as if the cameraman and the sound guy were both DUI, or the entire Wilson family (Luke, Owen and Andrew) seeking...
...much harder to explain my regard for Bug. I mean, eclectic as I pretend to be, I don't much care for horror movies, especially the currently endemic teen-slasher variety. But I saw William Friedkin's movie many months ago and it has haunted me ever since. For reasons best known to the addled-geniuses of movie marketing, it's being thrown against the Pirates of the Caribbean juggernaut next weekend, which probably is a result of a lot of people going "yetch" when they saw it. I understand that response. Who wants to see a movie shot almost...
...most pervasive problems. As an academic community, Harvard prides itself on the dialogue that occurs on campus, even on the most sensitive issues. In this tradition, we should embrace and extend the discussion of last Saturday’s incident at the Quad rather than trying to pretend that nothing consequential happened...
...most of their adult lives, Oakley and Valdez never had to pretend they were straight, and for the most part, Dallas didn't care--or didn't ask. But as they have assumed more powerful roles, their sexuality has occasionally seemed like an encumbrance. Oakley has woken up at 4 a.m. worried that a single "tacky mail piece" emphasizing his sexuality could keep him from the mayor's office. He had had one of those nights when we met for breakfast, and he spent the meal nervously doodling on napkins and periodically asking me to turn my recorder off. Oakley...
Kwong is vice president of Harvard Right to Life (HRL), professes that abortion is murder, but has nonetheless elected to be the head of Students for Rudy Giuliani—a man who does not seem yet to have hit the precise position he will pretend to believe on abortion. In the past, and apparently today, Giulani has been for government funding of abortions, and he’s also given thousands of dollars to Planned Parenthood...