The Academy Awards are fun if you don’t take them too seriously. Over the years many a completely forgettable film has gotten the top award while others that live on decades later have been rejected by the fickle voting members of the Academy. This year the entire process of selecting the best film […]
Archives for February 2012
2012 Oscars Feature More Comedy, Less Extravaganza
(Note: This column was prepared by E. Haig, the Sacramento-based performing arts critic whom Ed Telfeyan most admires.) The annual Hollywood love-fest, otherwise known as the Academy Awards Show, brought back host Billy Crystal (for the ninth time, but first since 2004), and made the most of his presence by playing up the comedy while […]
News Flash: Rick Santorum Doesn’t Like Sex
My sense is that shortly after our earliest forebears discovered God (or discovered his existence, if you prefer), they determined that sex was evil. And from that moment in our evolution, the act that for all other species is as natural as eating became our forbidden fruit. Except for the fact that the act […]
Rick Santorum’s Family Values: Behind the Rhetoric
Rick Santorum doesn’t like feminists. He also doesn’t like homosexuality (he loves homosexuals, just hates their acts). He vehemently opposes abortion, child killing in his view. He also condemns birth control. He considers any pre-marital (and, of course, extramarital) sex a sin and, presumably (if he is true to his Catholic faith), only condones […]