Word: satanic
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...last, a reason for Modern Maturity readers to watch mtv. In the video for Don Henley's newest song, The Garden of Allah, Kirk Douglas plays Satan. The 79-year-old actor, who agreed to take the role after consulting his rabbi, has no lines but lip-synchs quite convincingly--no mean feat for a man who's almost deaf...
...between sex and death. Signs in discos and delis announce: WELCOME TO HELL, SHOPLIFTERS WILL BE EXECUTED, PREPARE FOR THE APOCALYPSE. And the magic number for everything (the price of a burger meal, the address of a motel, even Amy's cumulative SAT score) is 666, the mark of Satan in Revelation...
...downside to this shedding of specific values is concisely identified by Andrew Delbanco in his new book The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil: "Americans once believed in God and in Satan; they were known to be obsessed with sin, and they pictured their own history as an epic struggle with evil. Today, however, while the repertoire of evil seems never to have been richer, as we daily encounter (and even relish) images of unimaginable horror, our grasp on the reality of evil nonetheless seems week and uncertain, our responses to it flustered and sometimes...
...longest, and mysteriously, the best of the pieces is also the least self consciously bizarre, "Brouhaha," directed by lay Beckman tells the everyday, black and white story of couple who throw a party which Satan crashes. When things get bad, as we knew they would, the host stays calm and retreats to his somehow ghoulishly tiled bathroom There he calmly administers a progressively more severe regimen of beer (the devil kicked the keg), whisky, pills, heroin and cocine. The restraint of clever shot angles of the 23 minute film make up for the terrible dubbing and college dorm feel...
...jotted "party favors?" and directed that his hearse should be made to "look ridiculous" and his casket covered with smiley faces, in order to "foil Satan's ploy" of making death a somber, black event...