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...Stalin. The Jews had done it, and now to Hohmann's dialectical somersault: Of course, this verdict "may sound horrible," he mused, but after all, isn't this precisely the "same logic" that led to the stigmatization of Germany as a "nation of perpetrators?" For non-Germans, this screed cries out for decoding. The unspoken logic is this: if the Jews were as bad, or worse, than our forefathers, then they have no special moral claim on us. The original Holocaust was invented not by us, but by them; so let them stop pointing their fingers...
Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger), author of the best-selling semifeminist screed Down with Love, is on a collision course with rakish journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). She thinks he's a pig; he thinks she's a prig. Abetted by their respective editors, Vikki Hiller (Sarah Paulson) and Peter MacMannus (David Hyde Pierce), they parry, gavotte and dissemble: Catcher pretends to be a rube astronaut; Barbara pretends to be...well, we can't give away the plot...
...writer Hunter S. Thompson’s gonzo opus was unjustly roasted when it premiered at Cannes and flopped at the box office in the same month, but its recent DVD release by the prestigious Criterion Collection is rehabilitating its reputation. Oh, and the film? Its a hilariously anarchic screed about the death of the sixties and the bankruptcy of polite society, starring Johnny Depp (sensational) and Benecio del Toro and featuring everybody from Cameron Diaz to Tobey Maguire. Tuesday, April 15 at 5, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Tickets $8.50, $5.50 members, children and seniors. Brattle Theatre, 40 Brattle...
...first is that - and this is a characteristic flaw of Moore's movies - it was a shrill harangue that would make a person ashamed even for agreeing with it. By starting off his screed by attacking the legitimacy of George W. Bush's election, he committed the same mistake as too many leaders of the antiwar movement, such as the leaders of ANSWER: he couldn't resist the temptation to lump his antiwar stance in with the rest of his portfolio of grievances. As a result, he made a speech guaranteed to alienate even many people who are also against...
...latest screed entitled “Women Behaving Badly,” Cardinale accuses us “ladies” of, in a way, having brought disrespect (and violence) on ourselves by behaving in a manner as “crass and libidinous” as our male counterparts. I feel my heart beat faster and my skin begin to tingle at this bit of warmed-over anti-feminism from a not-so-distant past (that of Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping...