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Cars and sex do have things in common: acceleration, aggression, contact, combustion. Cinema, eternal celebrant of the stupid-funny car crash, is the ideal medium to anatomize America's fetishizing of the automobile. And Cronenberg is the very guy for the job. His first commercial film, Fast Company, was about stock-car racing; his brilliant remake of The Fly was a parable of love, decay and death, of man misguidedly using machinery to transform himself...
...filled with beautiful, large-eyed "companions" and youths of perpetual freshness; the sutras speak of a multiplicity of "Buddha fields," pleasant way stations on the journey to Nirvana. Adding to the plenitude, the New Age is now unrolling its own versions of eternity. The best-selling author, internationally renowned medium and healer Rosemary Altea, for example, speaks of her vision: "Heaven is not a place; it's a state of awareness. Heaven is where your heart is, where your soul needs to be." Yet every paradise partakes of the same spiritual journey, and even Altea's shares attributes outlined...
...Deserves It: Sayles is such a good writer that one wonders if he hasn't chosen the wrong medium...
According to Leonard, television is a medium "neither wholly innocent of, nor entirely responsible for, the disorder it brings into our homes...
That, of course, is the essence of his appeal on radio. But the essence of film acting is demanding to be loved; Stern, with an occasional puppy-dog mope onscreen, shows himself willing to grovel for his new medium. "I was full of bravado when I first got into this," says Stern, who had never acted before, at least in the Stella Adler sense. "I was going, 'Oh, these actors are a______s, and it's so easy." Nevertheless, he panicked on the first day of shooting, begging to improvise his part in a more radio-like fashion before finally...