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...also a Crimson editor, begins as Georges Depardieu (cousin of French film star Gerard Depardieu) falls drunkenly asleep in an easy chair in his home. When he wakes up, his house does not belong to him anymore; it belongs instead to an anonymous unseen "Master" and his smug butler Jeremiah, who are throwing a dinner party for two couples, each of which is an alternate version of Georges and his girlfriend Chery. Georges 2 is a pimp whose assets include Chery 2; George 3 is Georgia, a woman, and Chery #3 is Chuck, a man who dresses in drag...

Author: By Joseph Hearn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Split Confusion: Media Frenzy | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...quickly forgets to affect drunkenness and in his black sneakers, black jeans, too-long belt and skinny tie, he looks more like a reject from a ska band than anyone who would be comfortable in the domestic sphere. Stephen Quinlan '04 is a high point as Jeremiah, the aforementioned smug butler; he carefully tries to integrate his often detached-sounding spoken lines into a coherent dramatic performance...

Author: By Joseph Hearn, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Split Confusion: Media Frenzy | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...film poses a smug challenge: If you don't like our merry little prank, that makes you square and unhip. O.K., we'll bite. This is soft-gore porn, obvious in its strategies, witless in the play of its ideas, absurdist only in its pretense to seriousness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Soft-Gore Porn | 11/27/2000 | See Source »

...record and a 4-3 Ivy record? Why couldn't the deadly offense provide more than one additional Ivy win over last season's team? Why couldn't the defense give Harvard its first winning record in three seasons? Why did we suffer another painful loss to such revoltingly smug and decidedly inferior opponent...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: It Shouldn't Have Ended This Way | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

...record and a 4-3 Ivy record? Why couldn't the deadly offense provide more than one additional Ivy win over last season's team? Why couldn't the defense give Harvard its first winning record in three seasons? Why did we suffer another painful loss to such revoltingly smug and decidedly inferior opponent...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: It Shouldn't Have Ended This Way | 11/19/2000 | See Source »

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