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Re: Saddam's penis

Satan bunks with Saddam. At The Hot Blog, David Poland has somehow gotten ahold of an obscenely funny memo from "South Park"'s Matt Stone, sent to the MPAA Ratings Board during negotiations over the rating for 1999's "South Park: Bigger,…

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From 'Gumnaam' to 'Ghost World' to... 'Lost'?

Enlarge image: "Jaan Pehechaan Ho" Terry Zwigoff ("Crumb," "Bad Santa," "Art School Confidential") said that as soon as he saw this musical number, "Jaan Pehechaan Ho," from the 1965 Bollywood production "Gumnaam," he knew he had to have it for…

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The musician: John Darnielle on criticism

Hughes & Darnielle Saw The Mountain Goats (John Darnielle and Peter Hughes) this weekend and I can't get the show out of my head. (Not only that, I don't want to.) Darnielle writes and performs songs that earn the adjective…

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The critic: Manohla Dargis on film criticism

I came across this interview, several years old, with New York Times film critic Manohla Dargis at senses of cinema. This was back when she was still writing for the LA Times, and I think she has some incisive things…

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The filmmaker: Wayne Kramer on critics & criticism

Paul Walker is scared. And he's running. Wayne Kramer, the director of "The Cooler" and "Running Scared," took the negative reviews of his last picture pretty hard. They weren't all negative, though. Roger Ebert gave "Running Scared" three stars and…

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Cadet life not so entertaining

I'm an Air Force Academy cadet, and I just wanted to make sure you know that you're right [in your review of "Annapolis"], cadets having relationships with officers is really not a good thing. It's called fraternization, and it's against…

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Once more into the valley

"Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," a movie for which Roger Ebert wrote the screenplay in 1969, is being released Tuesday, June 12 on DVD. The two-disc special edition includes a commentary track by Ebert, other commentaries by the actors…

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All trails lead to 'The Searchers'

Ethan Edwards, John Wayne and the ghost of Harry Carey. I had a favorite lit professor in college, Larry Frank, who said that all of literature could be seen through the looking glass of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland." He made…