... You had a swift kick in the pants coming from somebody. ... When I answered I wasn't retrenching on anything I said before, Peter. I believe I said what I...
... [On CASINO) ... What is tragedy is very much worth debating. But frankly I am mystified here. How in God's name is CASINO a tragedy but DEATH OF A...
... When I'm trying to understand that time, I analogize to the social grid that confronts someone accused today of pedophilia. Communism in the fifties...
... But doesn't the fact that people's lives don't generally have stories figure in somewhere? I think that popular biographies still try to have stories, to...
... By such standards "Macbeth" is no tragedy. He's so much less liekable than Willie Loman, don't you think? And how can Lady Macbeth compare to Linda? ...
... I find your analogy offensive in the extreme in light of the very central role gays and gay-baiting played in that era. Being gay was seen as being...
... I'm not sure I'm following you: - You think I'm making a general connection between Communists and pedophiles; - And that doesn't bother you, but an...
... No. The association of gays with pedophiles is longstanding and ongoing. It is a BLOOD LIBELthat you SHOULD be well aware of. ... And it's a VERY BAD...
... "...We live in an era of satire, and a play like Death of a Salesman is of that era, even if it parodies tragic form. I've heard it argued that Tashlin...
... I had only one English teacher in college who agreed with me that Macbeth was not really a tragic figure. And for all their creative pizzaz, neither...
... I'm not following you. Which charge made by whom? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the...
... The charge of pedophilia, made by anyone. The issue of communism doesn't have the same devastating psychological power as it did in the U.S. in the 40s...
... The issue ... Communism is a dead issue. The REAl Thought Crime du Jour is Liberalism. Liberals won't even call themselves Liberal anymore. Now everyone...
... I've been following this very intense discussion with great interest. Apart from my admiration for both Polonsky and his films, I'd like to refer members...
... like ... Real biographers have been getting the compexity of their subjects since Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets. Accidental Genius: How John ...
... situations, ... That's an interesting hypothesis, Dan, although as you point out yourself the pedophilia analogy doesn't really capture that possibility. ...
... Thanks, Richard. I recommend that people who are still puzzled by my use of "satire" (which means something like Saturday Night Live nowadays) read Frye's...
Thousands of peoples' lives in this country get destroyed on a daily basis, mostly due to corporate capitalism and the power structures in the legal system...
Watched "In Her Shoes" last night and loved it, though I had qualms in the stereotype casting of Toni Collete as an ugly duckling again, complete with excess...
... He's very talented, but also uneven. I first ment him on "White Dog" -- which he co-scripted with Sam Fuller. "In Her Shoes" is great fun. "L.A....
... Mark ... That auteurist in the Voice absolutely hated this one when it came out, Spanish-fly jokes and all, but then I caught up with it on cable and I...
... I saw it at Fox, where I was working at the time. They were planning on picking it up and screened it for the marketing dept. The producers were all set to...
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