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With a swastika tattooed on his left pec and a gaudy line of rage against minorities, Derek Vinyard (Edward Norton) is the very model of a modern neo-Nazi--the model, at least, to his doting younger brother Danny (Edward Furlong). While Derek simmers in jail for killing two black malefactors, Danny gets the evil message. He writes a paper on Mein Kampf, shaves his head and becomes a good little Hitler youth. Monkey...
...black-and-white scenes), made his name directing TV commercials in Europe. What's not clear is the product on sale here. It seems to be brotherhood among the races. But David McKenna's script is either cunningly ambiguous or desperately muddled. In racially torn Venice Beach, Calif., the neo-Nazis are pathetic lowlifes, crying out for our contempt. And of course Nazism is a thug ideology. Yet much of the film's violence is committed by blacks; most of the victims are white. So what's the moral...
...moral is as old as South Pacific: you've got to be taught to hate. Derek's father makes racist remarks, so the liberal-minded lad turns into a neo-Nazi; then Derek sees his beliefs are wrong, so skinhead Danny does too. It's nice that today's kids are so easily swayed by their elders. Or is it? Monkey...
...writing in regard to Professor James R. Russell's shameless assessment of the Matthew Shepard killing ("No Resurrection This Time," Opinion. Oct. 26). The abandon with which he shifts the blame from the killers to "the neo-conservative movement" and to "Christian Coalition types" is rather disturbing, as well as his mentioning the names of Irving Kristol, Richard John Neuhaus, Pat Buchanan and our own Harvey C. Mansfield '53 in connection with the gruesome murder...
...look at the facts here. One gay student was murdered by two despicable characters in Wyoming. Those boys deserve swift justice and should be punished as harshly as the law allows. They alone are responsible for their actions. Russell has made neo-conservatives and the religious-right his scapegoats. Quick to condemn them all for an alleged hatred of homosexuals, he exhibits his own intolerance. BRONWEN C. McSHEA...