When did insanity and stupidity become prerequisites for fame? One look at the newspapers makes it obvious that headlines have become a competition for the nuttiest celebrities to battle over. Why, you damn near have to pee on a girl just to make it in this crazy world. Somehow, R. Kelly has risen to the top of the charts…
As Hollywood wonders why audiences are staying away from theaters, the studios fail to confront the real reason: Their movies reek like decaying corpses — which isn’t so much metaphor as literal explanation when you consider that this has been a summer populated by such boob-tube zombies as Bewitched and The Honeymooners, which followed last year’s Starsky & Hutch…
If you’re trying to navigate the gulf between the absolutist view inside Fortress Bush and the relativist politics of Western Europe, you need go no further than Brothers, a provocative new drama from Denmark. (The film opens Friday at Tivoli Cinemas and plays for one week there as part of its Film Forum series.) Superficially, it’s an intimate and…
That’s a rap: Regarding Kendrick Blackwood’s “Tone Death” (July 28): I hate to sound callous or uncaring, but people are shooting each other over the name of a street that they’re probably renting on. If these wanna-be Tupacs and Biggies want to kill each other over what they say in a rap song, then go for it! As far as…
Hey, kids, Jimmy the Fetus here, your guide to moral values in the Midwest, helping everybody see that what we learned in Sunday school really matters. Dear Jimmy: I’ve always felt that Kansas City’s suburbs had more than their share of swingers. (And, uh, gross.) But this weekend I was at a birthday party for a friend, and a 90-year-old…
Cripes. The Strip has to hand another one to the Kansas Crusader, Phill Kline! Our attorney general, who this meat patty also likes to think of as the Spinish Inquisition, will no doubt find a way to describe in creative terms his most recent offense against any Kansan who isn’t exactly like him. That is, white and uptight. Kline recently…
