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...once remarked about his fans--or as he called them, "my deplorable cultus." He wondered what Americans saw in his long, deeply Anglophilic and, let's be frank, overwritten epic. But the Rings had struck a chord. The burgeoning environmental movement saw in his wasteland of Mordor a strip-mined industrial dystopia. On a deeper level, a country drowning in the moral quicksand of Vietnam and Watergate found comfort in the moral clarity of Tolkien's epic story of a just, clear war. Good and evil are fixed stars in the skies of Middle-earth even as they're starting...
...turned off the computer and the power strip and unplugged the stereo,” Harding said. “Also, because I live off-campus, I feel the electricity bill...
...ghetto, which, the narrator tells us, is "the only place you can get robbed by Santa Claus." Cousins Craig (Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps), the victims of a burglary, have one day to raise the stolen rent money, so they take jobs as security guards in the local strip mall. This Elvz N the Hood is standard, vigorous fare with a terrific supporting performance by Katt Williams as a pint-size pimp...
...first Martin is a savior to Lewis, a teenager whose slapstick act is bombing in strip clubs. But the public comes to see Lewis as the real star, a source of tension that finally breaks them up. Whether you consider Lewis a genius or one more reason to hate the French, the movie makes his originality unignorable. Lewis' now dated antics were once too hip for the room: audiences used to simple jokes didn't consider eating saltines while lip-synching an aria from The Barber of Seville to be comedy. You can see the germ of physical shock comics...
Like many who live through a tragedy, 24-year-old Putu Suameria has his own story of survival. A Balinese bartender at one of the numerous bars that line the alleyways near Kuta's nightclub strip, Suameria usually has Saturday nights off and spends them hanging out in front of the Sari Club, drinking beers and watching the foreign clubbers come and go. But on the night of October 12, he took a second shift to cover for a friend. The overtime saved his life. The car bomb that destroyed the Sari Club and killed 191 people was parked...