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Columbine High, where social-outcast status turned to murderous outrage, didn't create these series, but it lent them urgency, focusing as each does on that basic high school and Hollywood concern: popularity. Set in America's laboratories of tyranny, empathizing with misfits, the shows purvey the myth that much as there were suddenly no Nazis in Germany after V-E day, there are now apparently almost no former popular high school kids. "I very much identified myself as an outsider [in high school]," says Katims. "I was king of the geeks," says Manchester Prep creator Roger Kumble. "I totally...
...piece "Sex! Violence! Trash!" on so-called exploitation movies of the past belongs in the third category because of its lack of focus and misinformation [CINEMA, July 7]. Corliss branded my father, Edgar G. Ulmer, "the vagabond king of grade-Z films." My father's films did not purvey either sex or violence; perhaps their budgets were sometimes trashy, though only by necessity. None of his films were exploitive in the sense used in the article, but all were exploitable--read marketable--by virtue of my father's creativity as a director. His movie Detour (1946) was selected...
...very people employed by my tax dollars to create a high "quality of life" are the ones who pose a danger to both my civil rights and my own well-being. The NYPD and the many others like it throughout the nation purvey America's most treacherous kind of violence...
...would any respectable publisher choose to purvey this bunk? The answer, I'm afraid, is that bigotry sells books. New York City's Free Press has published a long list of first-rate works on political and social issues by writers from every point on the spectrum, yet so far the only blockbuster among them (with 400,000 copies in print) has been Charles Murray and Richard Herrnstein's The Bell Curve, which argues that blacks are genetically stupider than whites. On the jacket of D'Souza's latest, the Free Press high-mindedly says its publication will further expand...
...subject was the same perennial, youthful fury captured by the Sex Pistols, before they too self-destructed, and by the Who, before Pete Townshend survived to purvey nostalgia to Broadway theatergoers. Youthful nihilism may not be new, but no artist invents all his materials; it's what he does with them that counts, and Cobain wrote great rock songs as he explored a familiar theme with genius...