Heather Havrilesky has an interesting take on Alec Baldwin’s “thoughtless little pig” episode at Salon.com . She writes : “Rude, thoughtless little pig” was mild talk in my family, the kind of thing you might hear when you forgot to take out the trash. For a few years when my older brother was in high […]
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Rape : An April Fool’s Joke ?
Going through the posts at feministing.com , this one made my eyes nearly pop out of my head.It has 4 college boys holding up a poster for an “Intramural Rape League” . Besides the fact that this is an unbelievably atrocious idea, I can’t imagine that there were sane people around who went along with […]
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On the TV I see big, solid GATES. A few moments pass by, but the picture is unwavering. Still the same GATES. GATES which open and close, leaving me with glimpses of a few, well-dressed people, gathered inside. The camera slowly pans over the large GATES, searching for some orifice, through which to peer. A […]
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This film could be classified as a chick-flick because it’s based upon the romantic lives of two contemporary women, one American (Amanda – a wholly American looking Cameron Diaz) and one British (Iris – a dark-haired and considerably slimmed down Kate Winslet). Amanda is the very rich Hollywood based movie-trailer producer with her very own […]
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Immorality strikes again. The culture brigade is out is full-force. The threat to good old Indian values looms large. On TV, I witness men dressed in white burning effigies of Shilpa Shetty and Richard Gere. The men seem enthusistic, even gleeful at their task. Somewhere nearby (I presume) because the camera pans to her, Shetty […]
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Looking at the poster with Will Smith looking all beatific, and Smith junior looking fairly pleased too, one might think this a “happy” film. But “The Pursuit of Happiness” is one of those sad, sad movies which make life seem like a tightrope walking exercise – one misstep and you fall down into the dumps. […]
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