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Be offended. Be very offended.

"My cousin's niece has carpal tunnel, so I think I understand a lot about what it's like to suffer from the discrimination against the autistic in our society." That's not a direct quote. It's also not much of an exaggeration…

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Paul Newman x 3

Clips from the on-screen life of the late Paul Newman, actor and movie star: Richard T. Jameson at MSN Movies: Paul Newman's entrance in "Hud" (1963) is actually an exit, emerging just past dawn from a nondescript house on the…

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Apocalypse Now: An audio-visual aid

The communal Parallax View film criticism blog, coordinated by Sean Axmaker, has resurrected Richard T. Jameson's provocative, penetrating "Apocalypse Now" review, originally published in the Seattle Weekly (then known only as The Weekly) October 17, 1979. I think it's the…

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The dogs are loose! (Part 2)

My MSN Movies gallery feature article about Great Movie Underdogs (i.e., dogs whose proper names are not in the titles), is live. And, after the jump, the answers to last week's movie dog quiz -- and a couple of delicious…