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...complex De Monfreid who steals the show, of course. His voice - shifting easily from waggishness to bristling sarcasm to weighty understatement - is so dynamic that it ultimately doesn't matter whether he is using it in the service of fact or fiction. De Monfreid was at once a wild man and a philosophe, whose tender soliloquies on the joys of an unfettered life at sea, with nothing but the naked stars above, retain an immense power to seduce. While Hashish may be an acutely self-conscious literary artifact, it is also a singular self-portrait of a defiant spirit...
...Oscars can be faulted for anything, it's not for nominating obscure movies. Perhaps at its inception, popular films had the greatest artistic merit. But in a year in which intellectually void, flashy crowd pleasers (like 300 and Transformers) and idiotic supposed comedies (like Wild Hogs and Rush Hour 3) were among the highest-grossing films, how can Corliss justify suggesting that the awards go to more popular films? Discounting Ratatouille, you have to scroll way down the rankings to find anything that warrants consideration - like Charlie Wilson's War, No Country for Old Men and Juno. Moneymaking could...
...show is like the drama-club awards in high school. And nobody wanted to hang out with those kids, cuz they were, like, so weird. The Oscars should totally be a popularity contest, like electing Homecoming Queen. Then, finally, some good movies could win Best Picture. Like Norbit. Or Wild Hogs. Or 300. While you're at it, Mr. Corliss, could you jazz up the presidential race? Who cares about all these debates on stuff nobody understands? I think we'd be better off if we had a swimsuit contest and just voted for the hottest candidate. Craig Haen, White...
...definitely feel romantic love." What's more, say Fisher and others, love exists not just among complex animals like higher mammals but also among those we think of as little more than a collection of behaviors. And indeed, from affectionate kisses to romantic getaways to monogamous relationships, the wild does appear to be a surprisingly cuddly place...
...Dylan made a pilgrimage to Woody Guthrie. Decades later, Southern Sacred Harp royalty generously embraced the wild-eyed newcomers--many of whom were nonbelievers--in what Awake My Soul co-director Matt Hinton calls "red-state, blue-state harmony...