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...Name of the Father showcases a different kind of art. Sheridan (My Left Foot) is a bricklayer among directors; you can see the mortar between scenes. But he dares to make his hero something more, or rather less, than a plaster saint; Gerry is a scurvy thief who is guilty of every social crime but the one he's charged with. The drama here is eventually located not in the young man's battle against the Brits but in the coming to terms with his father, and thus his place in his family and his haggard country...
Examining Jean Genet, petty thief and major writer...
Perhaps more than any other writer of this century, Jean Genet celebrated what made him an outsider. An orphan, a homosexual, a thief and a prostitute, he spent the first half of his life in and out of jail. Genet gladly embraced society's definition of his sexuality as perverse, and then perversely glorified oppressive all-male environments: prison, brutal reform schools and the SS all received romanticized treatment in such landmark novels as Our Lady of Flowers and The Thief's Journal. What Genet lacked in moral acuity he made up for in artistic originality. His novels dealt with...
Even before the Atlanta incident, Shakur faced criminal and civil suits from Menace II Society co-director Allen Hughes, who says that after he dumped Shakur from the cast, the rapper attacked him with a lead pipe. Last year he was denounced by Dan Quayle himself after a car thief who murdered a Texas state trooper claimed to have been inspired by Shakur's debut album, 2Pacalypse Now. Though the jury didn't buy that defense in the killer's trial, the trooper's widow brought a multimillion-dollar product-liability suit against Shakur. For his part, Shakur...
Awarding Garza the Vice-Presidency on the basis of a minor technicality of parliamentary language was akin to awarding a proven thief his freedom on the basis of a minor typographical error in the arrest report; the difference is that under the law technicalities preserve freedom and the rights of the innocent, while under the council's decision technicalities preserve and reward ignorance, injustice and irresponsibility. Garza's "victory" is a hollow one at best, both personally and for the council as a whole; it serves as yet another reminder of UC ineptitude and casts a dark shadow over...