By: Noah Berlatsky
The oral sex was a metonymy for the fact that the content was problematic — including the sort of fight/sort of sex scene and the murders. And, you know, less worried that he’d lose his innocence than...
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Actually I liked it too, it was at least better than the soap and Nights in White Satin never sounded so good, haha
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
I haven’t seen the soap, believe it or not (my wife was a fan, though.)
View ArticleBy: Aaron White
I’m not sure if This American Life is entirely welcome in this venue, but this little story about Dark Shadows amuses me. http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/39/halloween?act=1#play
View ArticleBy: Aaron White
That story I just posted is wide open to accusations of twee snide ironic preciousness that dog This American Life, but as a longtime devotee of community theatre I relate to this account of salvaging...
View ArticleBy: Mike Hunter
——————— Noah Berlatsky says: But the vast changes in style and consciousness caused by the Civil Rights movement are never addressed. Surely Barnabas trying to parse Black Power — or even the Electric...
View ArticleBy: Noah Berlatsky
The slam-bang physical encounters are clearly sexual, was James’ point.
View ArticleBy: James
Um, that wasn’t my point, which was that in America violence is encouraged while sex is repressed; for children, violence is the curriculum…kids are not allowed to learn about sex or reproduction...
View ArticleBy: Mike Hunter
Along that “this is America, where violence is OK and sex obscene” vein, see the Nov. 19 Tom Tomorrow cartoon at http://comics.dailykos.com/ …
View ArticleBy: Donna Baines
Loved the film but could help but notice there weren’t any black people. Pretty disgusted really as so many Africans were shipped over and enslaved to build these places. Yep, well written Noah, 70′s...
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