Isaac Hayes in John Carpenter's Escape From New York, 1981 I was very glad to begin with to have seen Isaac Hayes perform at the inaugural "Celebrate Brooklyn!' concert in…
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Morvern Callar, Lynne Ramsay, 2002 (with Samantha Morton) Where the hell IS Lynne Ramsay these days, anyway? I thought Callar was, well, miraculous, and I've been jonesing for a followup…
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So. Something resembling war breaks out between Georgia and Russia, and, a little after noon on Friday, Jonah Goldberg strokes his chin and notes, "This could get pretty ugly, pretty…
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David Addington, Chief of Staff, office of Vice President Dick Cheney John Landis, film director, National Lampoon's Animal House, Trading Places, Three Amigos
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Lori Williams in Russ Meyer's Faster Pussycat...Kill! Kill!, 1965 A couple of my esteemed colleagues have expressed slightly guarded enthusiasm over the extremely shaky prospect that Quentin Tarantino will direct…
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