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Toleration does not, however, translate into esteem, though there seems to be much less hysteria about Moon now than there was in the 1970s. California Cult Foe Lowell D. Streiker thinks Moon's imprisonment may strengthen the loyalties of disciples, "but it doesn't help in recruitment or in image building." An even stronger view is taken by Anson Shupe of the University of Texas at Arlington, an expert on the movement. He sees a loss of momentum in the Moon cult, viewing it as an organization in disarray, pouring "millions of dollars down the drain" and unable to hold...
Mediocrity seems to be the villain of this piece, especially to young, Jewish, New York avant-garde poet Ira Streiker played by Ray Sharkey with all of the obnoxious energy of a real-life poet whose name almost rhymes with Strindberg. In three short sequences, Sharkey opens up with the abrasive, honest creativity that soured critics and the general public to Bohemian art. He sours some of his friends, too, but his attempt to fight mediocrity with boldness stands out in a film that turns the lives of three vibrant, struggling, unusual people into three mud puddles...