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The Rumpus Interview with Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan, the Armenian-Canadian director best known for The Sweet Hereafter, Where the Truth Lies, and Ararat, is back with a new film out in theaters, titled Adoration.
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Thoughts on Antichrist
I took notes during the first Cannes press screening of Lars von Trier’s new film Antichrist but I don’t have them in front of me right now. I don’t need them. This movie is many things: shocking, troubling, angry, maybe…
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So Long in Coming
Alfred Kinsey had his own movie, but William Masters and Virginia Johnson remain the unsung heroes of human sexuality studies. The latest issue of The Economist, however, takes four paragraphs to celebrate them and the “audacious, rigorous and weird” goings-on…
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Sexual Healing?
Women are nasty. They piss, and fart, and masturbate. They clean toilet seats with their vaginas and pull out tampons with barbeque tongs.
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Dick Cheney or Sith Lord?
Larry Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff calls the former VP a “Sith Lord” and then takes him to the mat:
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OK, OK, I Get it! Keyboard Cat!
Steven: You haven’t seen this shit? Me: What? Steven: It’s been going around recently. It’s just like funny videos, and then at the end there’s this cat starts playing an electric piano. Me: What song? Steven: Some little ditty. With…
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THE CHENEY DOCTRINE
I’m sick of torture. And the fact that we’re one of the countries way up there on the J.D. Powers annual “torture reliability” list makes me unwell as well. As does talking AROUND torture. What this country needs is an…
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THE RUMPUS ADVICE COLUMN: “Under what circumstances is it appropriate for a woman to pick a fight with a guy?”
My unofficial answer would be aim well.
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The Last Book I Loved: City of Thieves
The last book I loved is CITY OF THIEVES by David Benioff. I loved it for a simple, yet powerful reason: it transported me. I was on a 15.5 hour flight to Hong Kong and I read the novel in…
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Journal Highlight: Conjunctions and the New Weird, a Non-Genre
Conjunctions: 52, Betwixt the Between, its Spring 2009 issue, has just been released. According to the Editors’ Note, the issue explores what happens when the “borderlands of the normal and absurd…are breached.” This breach is bare in Secret Breathing Techniques,…
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The Rumpus Interview with Kirby Dick
Kirby Dick’s new film, four years in the making, seeks to expose the secret, and sometimes not-so-secret, double lives of closeted gay politicians, whose numbers are higher than you might imagine.