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...addition to the bizarre melange of genres, the film is somewhat annoying in its Dan Quayle-esque Republican insistence upon family values. Though Haynes is a slime and a psychological misfit, Eastwood and Costner render him thoroughly endearing to the audience. The film also suggests that Haynes is somehow less accountable for his actions, and his anti-child-molesting streak becomes the prime justification for some of his crazy antics. The film never makes a definitive statement on the question of this moral responsibility, but chooses its points of drama for the lesser issues of the guilt, fear and confusion...
...nice letters about it. I think I had sort of chosen her as my reader because I thought if I think of her then I won't just be nudging another gay person in the ribs with little in references. In other words I would be forced to render whatever I'm writing about from the ground up. I can't just say, "He was the Donna Summer kind of queen," you know, because it wouldn't mean anything to Mrs. Nabokov. So I think that it's kind of useful to have that sort of distance from your material...
...present popular discontent may produce some needed changes in immigration laws and practices. But there is no turning back: diversity breeds diversity. It is the fuel that runs today's America and, in a world being transformed daily by technologies that render distances meaningless, it puts America in the forefront of a new international order...
Just how carefully balanced does a jury have to be in order to render a fair verdict -- not to mention one that the public will believe is fair? In language dating back to the Magna Carta, the English common-law tradition promises defendants a jury of their "peers." The U.S. Constitution mandates "an impartial jury," and American law requires that it be drawn from a representative cross section of the community...
...physical movements of both actors on stage keep the performance at a high intensity level up through the end. By using large movements and exaggeratedly expressive gestures, they render the absence of other performers on stage unnoticeable. On the contrary, the performance seems action-filled...