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Worse, Terrence McNally's book coarsens what the movie danced around so delicately: the notion that these beefy blue-collar guys would turn into Chippendales dancers to make a buck. There are enough penis jokes to fill a segment of the Howard Stern Show, and some of the new physical gags--one character keeps crashing into walls--look like outtakes from Carry On, Stripper. The result is a long slog to the famous last scene, where the boys get up in front of the town to take it all off. Which they do, in the clever high spot...
...library books, lost ID cards and extracurricular courses somehow always conspire against us. These miscellaneous expenses are easily written off to our termbills and even more easily forgotten. Unfortunately, this usually means that come vacation time, the surprise that awaits us at home is not freshly baked cookies but stern lectures...
...lyrics they were singing were funny, but the stern board was evaluating and taking notes," he said...
...cover for our actual confusion, a whited sepulcher concealing the ugly fact that society hasn't yet dealt with the Internet's implications. In the old days, a flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator in a newsgroup--or even no one at all. ("The horror! The horror!") To deal with this new development, our irrational fear of the Internet--and our irrational...
...Marcus Stern...