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Tuesday, March 30
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Apocalypse Always!
After a year that was filled with so many images of bloodshed and war, that saw
suicide bombers, Beltway snipers, and plummeting stock prices and often made us
believe that the sky was falling for real, it seems surprising that anyone would
have wanted to entertain such apocalyptic visions and encourage their worst
fears or, for that matter, even pay to see them acted out on the big screen. But
if the movie receipts were any indication, our appetite for destruction this
summer was as insatiable as ever. Could this be yet another sign of the
end? | by Douglas L. Howard 10.23
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Searching for a Real Gay Man
A few weeks ago, over a mostly liquid Sunday brunch
of Bloody Mary’s and Mimosa’s, a friend of mine leaned across the table and
exclaimed, “You so wish you were a gay man.” The comment, while a little out
of the blue, was not entirely off target. There are plenty of straight
women, who, like me, harbor some version of the same fantasy. With the current
media frenzy over gay culture presenting images that are irresistible, can you
blame us? | by Hemal Jhaveri 10.23
The
Culture Industry Has You
Discussing the films with Entertainment
Weekly in May, Hugo Weaving, who plays the rogue program, Agent Smith,
relates that the cast was never able to get the brothers to answer the question,
“Which German philosophers do we need to read in order to comprehend this?”
Although often overlooked in discussions of the film’s references, the
Marxist-inspired social critique of the Frankfurt School wouldn’t be a bad
place to start | by Thomas Dodson 8.5
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Inside: Bandwagon:
How pro-war songs help sell Country (and country); "What Are You Doing Now?":
If embedding is a next logical step for reality TV (with all stakes raised, for
consumers as well as performers), it's also a huge leap in political, ethical
and commercial terms; C.S.I.: Crime Scene
Iraq: There are moral questions that can’t be
answered by collecting and sifting evidence through a government-issue sieve;
Reality
Check: Despite the failure of a handful of reality
shows immediately after Sept. 11, predictions that Americans would have no
appetite for watching bikini-clad models scarf down live crickets have not come
to pass.
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