Wild myths I believed about white people: Notes on race, American ignorance and the Capitol riots
America will never cure its racial sickness because no one wants to begin with what they do not understand
February 21, 2021 12:30AM (UTC)
Supporters of US President Donald Trump hold a rally outside the US Capitol as they protest the upcoming electoral college certification of Joe Biden as US President in Washington, DC on January 6, 2021. (OLIVIER DOULIERY/AFP via Getty Images)
By Matt Rooney Bruce Springsteen was threatening to leave the country if his guy lost the election looooong before he wanted you to unite with him by buying a shitty jeep, folks. Of course, the ancient rocker's unhinged hatred of 50% of the electorate didn't stop at Trump! Nope. Mr. Working Clas
Fahadh Faasil, Dileesh Pothan, And Team Wrap Up Joji
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Fahadh
Faasil
and
Dileesh
Pothan,
the
highly
celebrated
actor-director
duo
finally
wrapped
up
their
next
outing,
Joji.
The
team
members
revealed
the
exciting
update,
by
sharing
a
group
picture
of
the
entire
team
on
social
media.
The
highly
anticipated
Fahadh
Faasil
starrer
is
an
official
adaptation
of
William
Shakespeare s
Macbeth.
As
reported
earlier,
nothing
much
has
been
revealed
about
Joji,
which
marks
Fahadh
Faasil s
third
collaboration
with
Dileesh
Pothan.
As
per
the
reports,
the
project
was
entirely
shot
at
Kottayam
district,
following
all
safety
guidelines
implemented
by
the
Kerala
government.
“True Colors” has ambition. It wants to be an “All the King's Men” or “The Candidate” for the 1990s, a film to show how unprincipled ambition can lead a young man to the very top of politics, and then cast him down again. The new twist this time is that the young man comes from humble origins, and betrays the rich aristocrat who has been his friend. Usually it's the other way around.
The movie otherwise follows a predictable formula, but occasionally overcomes it through the skill of its acting, which redeems several scenes that seem to have been constructed out of durable Victorian novels. The key actors are John Cusack and James Spader, two of the best of their generation, playing this time against type: Cusack is often a hero, and Spader is usually a villain.
The movie begins with a Meet Cute on the first day of law school, when the two men have a fender-bender that's Cusack's fault.
This scene and the one that follows it are so contrived - so entirely at
It’s forty years now since they killed John Lennon, which is how old Lennon was when he died. When I was a kid, John Lennon was the major absence in popular culture, just as Marilyn Monroe or Jimmy Hendrix had been before that, but this time the size of it was unheard of. We lived in
a baby boomers’age in which
the Beatles had been everything, a world forged in a melting pot of the sixties and its myths. To say Kurt Cobain, not to mention Ian Curtis or Amy Winehouse, doesn’t even come close. The baby boomers still took themselves seriously and they had real myths.