By Staff 1/29/07 10:34am

Guilt Over Fascism Fuels the Spanish Allegory in ‘Pan’s Labyrinth’

I saw “Pan’s Labyrinth” the other night. It’s a great movie, period. That said, my friends and I differed on the thrust of the allegory, whether it is political or psychological.

The movie is set, very realistically, in a fascist outpost in the mountains in 1944. Franco’s troops are trying to root out the Read More

By Staff 6/12/06 11:03am

Anderson Cooper Poor-Mouths Yoko

Anderson Cooper’s down-home, appealing commencement speech at Yale 10 days ago was marred by a crack he took at Yoko Ono. He brought up a commencement speech she gave 3 years ago, as a non-model.

She said: “I say you can’t stand if you’ve got too much muck in your head. Let Read More