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...laughed. “I have friends,” he added. I stopped laughing. Stepping off his porch, I reentered America. A week later, I returned to the neighborhood to go on Michele Topor’s culinary tour of the North End. Topor, a trained chef and resident of the North End for almost four decades, has been leading trips through the area for the past 14 years. The first stop on the three-hour walking and tasting tour was Maria’s Pastry Shop, five minutes from the Haymarket station...
...supplanting him, ruins the country. Yet even with the events of the past two years before him, Penderecki draws no particular political symbolism from the text, and his harmless, rather charmless tonal score simply galumphs forgettably along. Far more Ubu-like are the sets and costumes by artist Roland Topor, which achieve startling new depths of vulgarity through their persistent evocation of feces and entrails. Is a triumphal arch crowned by a defecating man waving toilet paper black humor, or does it go beyond post-funny and into the realm of merely disgusting...
JUDGMENT (HBO, Oct. 17, 21, 25). A kindly parish priest turns out to be a child molester in this provocative if predictable cable movie written and directed by Tom Topor (The Accused...
...some blame women for getting raped. Topor recalls that "the middle-aged mother of one of my friends saw the movie and said to me, 'Obviously she deserved it.' " Says Gail Abarbanel of the Rape Treatment Center at Santa Monica Hospital in California: "I haven't seen a single rape case with multiple assailants in which anyone has tried to stop it. And research indicates that the more people around, the less anyone takes responsibility...
...rape case has yet been prosecuted under a criminal-solicitation law. "A lawyer told me that a conviction such as the one in the film would probably be thrown out," says Topor. "But we were just raising it as one possible interpretation and using it to make a point. And the law says that anyone who encourages a crime is culpable. We all depend on each other to act when we get into trouble." And that applies to good Germans in the Nazi era or nice guys sitting in a bar. "If you and I abdicate," says Topor...