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...itself on confronting its audience with the fact of the Holocaust nonetheless stops short of this triviality, which makes one consider how real the Holocaust is for this movie, and so for its audience. The ethics of making Dussander the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. Perhaps if he were a man at once horrified at what he did and yet still partly indoctrinated into Nazi ways, the character would be interesting, but he is not. He rather remembers and repeats his deeds with a relish...
...soul. Then in 1970 Miles Davis received the first gold record of his life, for Bitches Brew, a sonic eye opener that experimented with electric instruments and rock and funk rhythms--a strange, primal, remarkable album. Soon, however, a whole generation of musicians was squandering its talents on increasingly vapid (though profitable) jazz-rock hybrids that came to be called fusion. Known today as smooth jazz, or as "that crap they play when Regis and Kathie Lee go to commercial," fusion continues to thrive; it even has its own Billboard chart. But in more sober musical circles, it is considered...
Beatty has created several dead-on characters, particularly his top aide Murphy (Oliver Platt). Although his boss has started speaking almost entirely in class- and race-baiting rap and insults the vapid, helmet-blond moderator of the final debate, Murphy soldiers on as if he's got just a nanny problem on his hands. He praises the "value of a frank exchange" as the richest Jews in California walk out on a Bulworth rant. "Forty winks," and his guy will be just fine. "He's tied up with his advisers," he barks into two phones when Bulworth has disappeared...
Bells are not the issue. Some people just don't like bells, and this does not upset me in the slightest. What does upset me is the vapid, parochial attitude the quoted comments illuminate and the kind of self-absorbed, self-preoccupied refutation of community and the communal experience they reflect. We treasure chain-link over bronze because we treasure ourselves over others. It is this underlying stripe of self-centeredness and introversion which taints our society (never mind our university) and keeps us physically and socially immured. CHRISTOPHER...
This fall the cable channel took a deep breath and gave Bart what he wanted. Quick cuts, vapid veejays, silly game shows, Singled Out, the beach house--gone. In their place, the channel refocused its programming on music and news; showcased interviews with musicians broadcast live from a studio overlooking Times Square; and hired a new cast of serious, rock-minded jocks. To oversee the changes, it brought in Brian Graden, 34, the former Fox executive who commissioned the famously crude Christmas cartoon that became Comedy Central's hit, South Park. "There's more value on talent and substance...