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sixteen august ninety eight five p m films and newspapers Late Saturday night, I wrote about Friday; it therefore makes a sort of perverse sense that on Sunday afternoon I should write about Saturday. On Saturday we went to see The Avengers. It is composed entirely of really amazing scenes which seem to have nothing holding them together, as if you've watched a collection of short set pieces without actually seeing a movie. Kymm Zuckert is right; it's not going to be a Classic. It will, however, make a great midnight movie some day. I can't get anyone to go see Saving Private Ryan with me because all my friends think it'll be too depressing or too intense. I hate going to movies by myself. I don't have the phobia some people have about going to restaurants by themselves, but with movies, definitely. The Globe's little fracas with Mike Barnicle is apparently attracting national attention - Entertainment Weekly printed a joke about it. That's disheartening. The paper doesn't need more bad publicity. Then again, they did screw up by not firing him. A lot of people think they chickened out. A lot of people are also saying they have a racist double standard, given that they fired Patricia Smith for fabricating columns - basically the same sin - not two months ago. The Globe's not racist, though. Their double standard is a different one: They think that Barnicle sells papers, and they didn't think that Smith did. The irony, of course, is that many readers would have rather read Smith lying than Barnicle telling the truth. Time to go write Stay Tuned. © columbine |
