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[email protected] wrote: > > Picking a movie one hasen't seen...reminds me of Norman Mailer's swan song > as a regular columnist for the Village Voice. He reviewed a movie he hadn't > seen, admitted it in his review and got a response from readers who were > rather appalled. He recounts this in "Advertisements for Myself," I believe. > But I generally have to agree with his approach which is consistent with > so much modern political communication. Why read something or see something > before you comment on it? I imagine that most people are aware that I am in the habit of giving movies terrible reviews after seeing only 5 or 10 minutes of them. That used to drive one ex-subscriber who shall go nameless crazy. Life is too short to sit through Gran Torino and that is that. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
