Word: rottenness
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...sentimental favorite among the membership: Ossie Davis, her actor husband of 57 years and another lion for racial equality, died two years ago. But she still has stiff competition from Cate Blanchett, who impersonated Bob Dylan in I'm Not There, and Amy Ryan, multi-award-winner as the rotten mom in Gone Baby Gone...
...produced Vacancy, When a Stranger Calls and sequels to Hostel, 8mm, Sniper, Resident Evil and I Know What You Did Last Summer. So Sick is pretty much the in-house genre, and the superior moral tone of Intractable is just another twisted prank. The movie says we're all rotten and weak for watching the very form of lurid stuff it put on the screen. But the people behind the film won't take responsibility for their artistic crimes. They say they're not culpable for manufacturing and marketing this trash. No, we are for paying...
...That won't happen this year. If the Oscars follow the critics' prizes, there won't be a hit film among them - not even the hits that reviewers loved. Disney's megahit comedy Enchanted has the highest rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics' polling site, but I barely heard the film mentioned at the New York voting today. Dozens of scribes raved about the smash comedies Knocked Up and Superbad, but neither film has won a critics' prize. The comedy they love now is Juno, which came out last week...
...election, Putin had one less annoying figure to worry about. Kasparov, of course, knows that a rigged match cannot be won. But he has tried nonetheless, ignoring the arbitrary repercussions that would follow his political activism. His devotion to truth and determination to alert the world to the rotten state of Russian politics deserve our deepest respect. We can only hope that the sacrifice of his safety—and that of others like him—will be worthwhile in the long run. Under Putin, Russia is bound to continue to distance itself from the rest of the democratic...
...Marjinal, a punk band that has helped over a thousand street kids earn cash by teaching them how to busk. "Music gives these kids a way to survive, to make some kind of living," says Mike, Marjinal's lead singer. "Punk, to me, is addressing the things that are rotten in society. It tells us that we have the ability to be independent and take care of each other...