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...receptiveness of the establishment to the outlaw sub-art in the early and middle 70s was evident at the two major film festivals I took part in, Cannes and New York. In Cannes' unofficial sidebar, known as the Market, Mary and I saw Behind the Green Door, Lasse Braun's Sensations, Max Pecas' Dictionary of Sex and Metzger's Score, where, after a screening of the film's soft-core version, we were invited to stay for an alternate final reel featuring hard-core sex. (Metzger went on to direct one more arty hard-core, the excellent Paris-shot...
Given the red-in-the-face visceral fury that the original film has incited since its release (see sidebar), Miller’s first reaction upon viewing The Birth of a Nation was surprising. At the time, he was a philosophy/French literature major studying at Bowdoin College, a D.C. expat fed on hardcore punk groups like Bad Brains and a style of ’70s horn-funk called...
...concept that Margo seems to be working with is some type of Wall Street take off, in which everyone strides around in a power suit and pours coffee from the sidebar. Aesthetically, this definitely works—the set and lighting are both excellent. The office is scrupulously represented, replete with fake trees and a leather anteroom and the costumes are great—powersuits never looked so good. In conjunction with this theme, there are a number of 80s-inspired dance numbers which are funny if a bit at odds with the rest of the plot...
...easy to imagine that by the end of the decade most U.S. cities will exist beneath an invisible dome of wi-fi--"city clouds," in the jargon of the industry. Rio Rancho, N.M., has one, though not on the scale of Spokane's; ditto for Grand Haven, Mich. (see sidebar), as well as Lafayette, Louis and Cerritos in California. And bigger players are moving in all the time. Cook County, Ill., is planning a massive 940-sq.-mi. cloud that would light up all of Chicago. Philadelphia announced a humongous hot zone of its own in September. Los Angeles...
...Sidebar: In 1977, Trial Attracted More Local Buzz The Pring-Wilson case’s low local profile contrasts sharply with the buzz around Boston in the 1977 trial Commonwealth v. Soares, when a Harvard student was the victim—not the perpetrator—of a fatal stabbing...