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...late in the film, when Kate Capshaw, playing a no-nonsense femme fatale-cum-cattle ranch owner, takes revenge on her emotionally retarded son Flyboy (Jeremy Davies) for dropping his role as flunky to become "man of the house." (Flyboy, since his father's suicide, only speaks to said steer.) This sequence, along with a steamy sex scene between Vincent Vaughn and Ashley Judd, had to be heavily edited in order to avoid an NC-17 rating. But even with the editing, it's still a visceral piece of filmmaking. Kelley finds just the right tone to make what could...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Locusts' a Confused Film Debut | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

...Locusts, the debut feature of writer-director John Patrick Kelley, is perhaps the first film ever to use the castration of a steer as a major plot point...

Author: By Brandon K. Walston, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Locusts' a Confused Film Debut | 10/3/1997 | See Source »

Icould tell Jonathan Alter '79 had gone to Harvard. Who else but an alum of a school with an $11 billion endowment would call on the super-rich to steer their money away from higher education...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Do We Deserve the Barker Center? | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

Fake punch cards had a handwritten "9/29/97" for the date and requested business attire, no guests and no R.S.V.P., presumably to steer investigative first-years from inquiring at the Pudding office...

Author: By Joshua L. Kwan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Receive Fake Pudding Invites | 9/30/1997 | See Source »

Carpenter-McMillan says she's just encouraging Jones to follow her instincts, but that may not be prudent in such a pressure-cooker case. "Can a nonlawyer steer this vessel to port, or is Paula going to go down with the ship?" asks feminist attorney Gloria Allred. Carpenter-McMillan says she's looking for a new lawyer to take the case, "one that I feel really good with." And who might that lawyer be? Carpenter-McMillan denies that her husband William, a personal-injury attorney, will now take over. But then she chirps, "Wait till my husband demands pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAULA 'S NEW SIDEKICK | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

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