A Whole New Point of View The lights dim, the audience goes silent, spotlight up, out steps the producer to introduce his play, Coca-Cola's Craig Kevorkian Presents Volpone. The curtains open up ... damnation, but you will also receive physical punishment. By putting it in the context in which I have placed it, the play will take heavy meaning for all the trekkie fans, Star Wars freaks, and Babylon 5 jerks, not to mention the Battlestar Galactica-Heads. While most of the characters of Volpone hold the primary sin of avarice, Volponex's main sin is pride. He ... virtues and turn from the way...

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Ok, so let's face it: Star Wars: Episode I didn't exactly knock our socks off like we were expecting. Even the guys waiting in line since 5AM opening day in full Darth Maul costume had to eventually admit ... we're willing to give him two more cracks at it. The critics, however, were not so understanding. For the next six months the media proceeded to rip poor Lucas a new one. Several went as far as to call Episode I the worst movie of the summer. PCGamer said it "sucked a piece of ass the size of an Imperial ... it is indicative to what often happens to fantasy movies. Episode I got special ...

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... Warner Bros continually insisted he do it. The executives actually thought the story needed more "explanation"; Ford later confessed that he did it badly on purpose in hope the executives would not use it. Well didn't they prove him wrong. One of the most impressive things for me in this movie was it Futuristic ... he showed the raw emotion, the spite, the love, the fear brilliantly. He fitted perfectly into the movie. His lame voice over no longer there shows a whole new side. He also extended the Romance between Rachael played by Sean Young and Himself. Sean Young did a brilliant job; ...

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... lives they read the newspapers and went to the movies. Both fed them on lynching, murder, sex crimes, explosions, wrecks, love nests, fires, miracles, revolutions, wars." But "nothing can ever be violent enough to make taut their slack minds and bodies." (Ch. 27) This is an attack not just on Hollywood, but on ... "stars," who are, after all, entertainers by profession, are the most admired members of society, more than the rulers and certainly more than the intellectuals. This new attitude did not appear spontaneously; it was successfully cultivated, but by whom, and for what reason? I ...

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