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...their tale. On the whole, they've made a pretty good job of it. For example, they posit the scandalous possibility that pictures of Princess Margaret, engaging in a threesome on a Caribbean island have been stored in one of the boxes by a real-life villain named Michael X, a drug dealer posing as a black power advocate. He's using the snaps to protect himself from crown prosecution. There are also pictures of establishment figures caught in flagrante in a bondage brothel and a ledger recording the payoffs made to the police by a porn kingpin. The movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bank Job is Sweaty and Suspenseful | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...tears stream down my face as Barack Obama delivers magnificent speeches like those he gave at Dr. King’s Ebenezer Baptist Church. Without doubt, there are many who will vote for or against Hillary and Barack on the sole basis of her extra x-chromosome and the color of his skin. But for the informed and thoughtful citizen, the much more interesting question at stake is less about demographics and more about the key skills required to be an effective president: established fluency in policy-speak versus the ability to bring down the rafters. At heart...

Author: By Audrey J Kim | Title: The Mechanics of Democracy | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...change you can believe in”—seems to have touched a widespread nerve amongst Democrats of all stripes, particularly when compared with the distinctly uninspiring and combative style of his opponent. It remains to be seen, however, just how valuable the American people believe this x-factor to be contra John McCain—a candidate with Hillary’s foreign policy credentials and without such widespread (albeit superficial and oft-overstated) “dislikeability.” Painting a Purple Heart winner as “anti-hope,” I would...

Author: By Audrey J Kim | Title: The Mechanics of Democracy | 3/3/2008 | See Source »

...X-rated language aside, there was a lot more banter you won't be hearing at the Academy Awards. Apparently, Hollywood has a big man-crush on the night's honorary chair, Javier Bardem. Wilson, Diving Bell director Julian Schnabel and Dustin Hoffman all copped to it. Hoffman even claimed to have created a love child with Bardem - Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sharing a bed, the good-natured Spanish actor from No Country For Old Men remarked, would be a good way to work on his English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Not-Oscar Goes to... | 2/24/2008 | See Source »

Starting Feb. 22 at the Loeb Experimental Theater, Harvard’s Immediate Gratification Players (IGP), a long-form improvisation comedy group, will present “IGP Laugh Riot Festival X: The Enchanted Forest.” The show will also feature groups from several other colleges. Due to the Roving Reporter’s lack of comedic talent, this paragraph is not interesting.Kevin T. Burrows ’10RR: Tell me about the Immediate Gratification Players.KB: IGP is a long-form improv comedy troupe. Usually what we’ll do is take a one-word suggestion...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ROVING REPORTER: IGP Laugh Riot Festival X | 2/22/2008 | See Source »

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