Date Movie
Last week a movie called Date Movie, presumably because it concerns dating or perhaps one particular date, was released nationwide. It is the brainchild of the same team of writers behind Scary Movie and Scary Movie 2. This is also the same team that wrote Scary Movie 3. And now they have written another movie. […]
Sprint Finish
Humorous entertainment doesn’t come to campus often enough. The Triangle Show plays twice a year, while Quipfire! improvises three times a semester. Aside from that, there’s not much else. Enter “The Princeton Sprint,” a weekly comedy that will debut on TigerVision, Princeton’s new television channel for student programming, in the spring. “Sprint” is a sometimes […]
Using Your Salive as Lube
In December, Zachary Woolfe ’06 wrote a very personal review of “Rent,” the movie adapted from the hit Broadway musical, in these pages. When I read Woolfe’s review, I was struck by his honesty about his sexuality insofar as it influenced his critique of the film. Woolfe’s central argument regarding the movie was that it […]
Justin’s Reasons Why Not
Since Amazon failed to deliver the Jack Abramoff-penned action catastrophe “Red Scorpion” on Friday, as they had promised, I needed to pass some time before going out. After careful deliberation, I decided I would see if those rapscallions at “Dateline” had entrapped anymore sexual predators, but lo and behold, NBC was not showing its prized […]
The Sheffield Invasion
Hype is an interesting phenomenon. Advertisers try to create it. Any product, ranging from an eight-dollar movie ticket to the five-bladed razor, hopes to have it.
An Anthem for the Ages
Europe’s “The Final Countdown” has undergone a renaissance in the past seven years. The current wave of enthusiasm over the song began with the 1999 release of The Final Countdown 2000, a CD single featuring original 1986 versions of the song along with an updated dance remix that promised to launch citizens of Earth into […]
The End of Neo-Conservativism?
Francis Fukuyama, the most thoughtful of the neo-conservatives, announced in the Sunday NYTimes Magazine that he is no longer a neo-con. This turn of events is no opportunistic team-switching on his part, but an inevitable result of the neo-conservatives’ Middle East agenda.
Thank You for Smoking
The first time I smoked a cigarette, I was sardined with six other middle-school aged girls in a shower of my boarding school dorm. The logic was that if Matron caught us lighting up we would hastily strip down, turn on the faucet, and pretend that we were just casually showering together in the middle of the night.
The Mirror and the Lamp and the ViewMaster
Back in Chicago over intersession, doing a stint at home, I had the opportunity to visit the fall-term Student Projects Exhibition at the Institute for Design. One of the leading design schools in the nation, the Institute grew out of the New Bauhaus, founded in Chicago in 1937 by Bauhaus veteran Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and his […]
