Word: sid
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...members, mostly old; they joked that anyone under 70 should join the youth group. Hall proved dynamic alright, but not in a way the solidly middle-class, overwhelmingly straight congregation had expected. Over three years he explicitly campaigned to extend fellowship to gays. This caused considerable whispering. "People said, 'Sid's not going to last very long, and we can always get another minister,'" recalls Wise. "One friend of mine said she thought if gays came to church, Sid's children would be molested. I told her I didn't think...
...they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this moment that seemed like pathetic weakness was actually a window into his humanity...
...center of this gray-market trade squats Veteran Plumbing and Supplies in Windsor, located near the border crossing over the Detroit River. For 55 years, Veteran's proprietor, Sid Awerbuck, 75, has made a nice living selling faucets, tubs and other washroom fixtures. But in the past two years, as the booming economy has pushed more and more Americans into new homes and onto the balky new low-flow toilets, trafficking in the old high-flush models has added 20% to his bottom line. And here's the best part: most of the outlaw commodes sold in Windsor are made...
...films' tone varied: they could teach with a smile, a scowl or a sneer. Some had progressive messages, favoring family planning, opposing witch hunts and racial prejudice. Others could leave lasting scars. Sid Davis' socio-splatter movies often ended in violent death, simply because a boy had driven too fast or hitched a ride with a homosexual. In Davis' babes-in-bandage Live and Learn, kids get impaled on scissors, blinded by BB blasts, or run over while playing baseball on the street. If only they'd watched this movie...
Indeed, if one were of the paranoid mind-set fomented by duck-and-cover cartoons and the Sid Davis oeuvre, one might believe that educators of a radical bent designed these films as reverse social engineering. They knew that kids would take dating dos as don'ts, and vice versa. Some children may never even have considered slouching until Posture Pals told them not to. Did the mental-hygiene cinema of the '50s create the hippies and druggies...