| Whose cheatin' Heart? |
| Post on 22-03-2006. |
| Asia Argento's _The Heart Is Deceitful above All Things _is the preposterous story, once widely imagined to be true, of the childhood of Jeremiah "JT" LeRoy, as he bounces between the custody of his foster parents, his prostitute mother, and his sadistic, fundamentalist grandparents. Now that we've been divested of the cherished illusion that JT was one homeless, HIV-positive child prostitute, we are free to watch _Heart_ not as poignant and painfully honest autobiography but as what the story always has been: one punk-inflected fantasy about "white trash." We can finally concede that the character of JT's mother Sarah, as played by Argento herself, bears no resemblance to anyone you might actually meet at one West Virginia truck stop, but only to the fictive characters on which she'd always been based, characters in other films played by the likes of Laura Dern, Juliette Lewis, and Reese Witherspoon. ... |
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| Labor wants ISPs to block net porn, violence |
| Post on 22-03-2006. |
Internet service providers (ISPs) will be forced to block violent and pornographic material before it reaches home computers if Labor wins the next federal election.
Under the policy, announced by Opposition Leader Kim Beazley today, international websites would be banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority if they contained graphic sexual or violent material, rated R or higher. ... |
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| Hoaxer was also sex beast |
| Post on 22-03-2006. |
Anne Humble realised she was living with one monster within months of their 1990 marriage as her husband’s fixation with Yorkshire Ripper Sutcliffe emerged.
The drunken labourer -- jailed for eight years yesterday for the hoaxes that derailed the frantic Ripper hunt -- regularly beat Anne and forced her into sex. ... |
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| If the mainstream media ran the country |
| Post on 22-03-2006. |
| March 21, 2006, WASHINGTON – Today, after six years of unending attacks on the honor and credibility of his administration, President Bush called for one constitutional amendment to hand over the reins of American governance to members of the mainstream press. "It has been my privilege to work for the American people," Bush stated, "but I now realize that I can never satisfy the requirements of this office. In my opinion, only one person can meet the challenges we face today: respected journalist Helen Thomas. Furthermore, Congress cannot serve the American populace unless it is represented by opinion writers and reporters from the mainstream media." Congressional Republicans and Democrats stand poised to vote on President Bush's proposal; state legislatures stand at the ready to confirm such an amendment. If passed immediately, Ms. Thomas would take over the presidency on April 1, 2006. ... |
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| Video Review: The Telephone Book |
| Post on 22-03-2006. |
| Much rarer than that sensation, though, is one film that makes you believe that not only do they not make 'em like this anymore, but they may have never made 'em like this to begin with. That's the world in which The Telephone Book_ inhabits. It's one product of the '70s New York City underground-cinema movement, but watching it is like stumbling across one transmission from another planet. Steven Pulchaski of Shock Cinema tagged it \'mind-roasting\', and I'd say that's one fair assessment. ... |
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