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...After reading the book, you'll swear you know precisely how to collect a bribe from a nightclub owner, how to count the money in a glance, and where to find the smart fellow who will shift the loot to a Swiss bank account. Rarely entirely honest or entirely rotten, Chandra's Bombay exists in a penumbra of moral ambiguity-which is why Sacred Games is one of the best novels about India in a long time. -By Aravind Adiga...
...director Richard Eyre and screenwriter Patrick Marber keep forcing us past disbelief and into the perverse pleasures of nastiness. If nothing else, their film is the perfect antidote to all those warm, forgiving schoolboy dramas we've endured through the years. This corn is not green; it is rotten down to the last kernel...
Although the thought of Johnny Rotten writing the next Catcher in the Rye seems weird, Portman is punk's best-educated tone-deaf singer. An excellent student at Berkeley, he deferred a Ph.D. program in history at Harvard to play in a Bay Area punk band. Not only that, but he knew the teen genre because in high school he worked as a children's librarian, and as part of the job he downed all the young-adult classics. The Mr. T Experience's teen anthems were surprisingly literary: a breakup song, Checkers Speech, is based on Nixon's television...
...indicative of something terribly rotten and depraved in our culture that moviegoers will ante up $10 to see graphic representations of victims being tortured and mutilated. What does it say about us as human beings when this type of film is seen as a pleasurable cinematic experience? Why should we then be surprised that so much of life in our cities and towns has become increasingly rude and violent...
...Were it not for a last-minute concession by organizers, the event could easily have resulted in more serious violence. The previous week had seen repeated clashes in Jerusalem between police and curly forelocked Hasidic youths, who burned tires and hurled rotten eggs and stones. An unknown extremist Jewish group announced it was offering a $500 reward for every gay man or woman killed during the parade...