“Wilson’s case was pivotal, not simply because he won it in the end but because of what it led to—the exposure of a torture ring.” —John Conroy, November 29
Tony LaMantia
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Haha, asshole! Your favorite cop killer is dead, what lame bullshit are you going to come up with now? You and your paper are a bunch of dirty, filthy communist fucks. Real assholes, that’s you! You hippie types got what you deserved from the CPD at the ’68 Democrat convention. And also, at Kent State.
Haha!
Also, your capsule review of Redacted seemed ambivalent but more positive than negative, albeit with significant reservations. In FC, you give that film two stars.
The simple answer is that I have changes of heart (and mind) all the time. I even thought of making No Country for Old Men a Critic’s Choice when I gave it one star, but then my editor and I agreed that this would have led to confusion. For me, it’s the artificial stars and other rating systems that are screwed up (by virtue of being simpleminded and consumerist), which my shifts in evaluation, both quite conscious, were intended to reflect. The alternative is to stop thinking about films once we affix grades to them—something that I sometimes do but am not especially proud of.
The fact is that New York simply has “more of” everything but not by any means the “quality” of everything. Broadway is chiefly a rerun of musical comedies and rank commercial productions (the strike could have gone on forever as far as I’m concerned). The good theater in Chicago (which I think is a terrific place for actors and playwrights) is off-Loop, as in New York it is off-Broadway. We grow our talent in Chicago, we don’t have to import it.
