(Curiously, one reason why Wilder was himself disappointed with the way this film turned out was that he originally wanted Armbruster Sr.'s longterm affair to have been with a male hotel bellhop, until studio executives dissuaded him.)

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["I am a man, and consider nothing human to be foreign to rue"],

It's what you're slowest to approve of that teaches you the most.

"I would say that I take them more seriously than someone who has to write about them twice a week can afford to"

Daniel Cohn-Benclit.

For Wood, the discovery of what he considers to be positive moral values in a film is a prerequisite to his appreciation of it-a

Mythologies about macho power and the pride of wanton blood-spilling are arguably at the roots of what put George W. Bush twice into office, but this is something we've generally allowed ourselves to laugh at only after it's too late to undo most of the damage.

One used to assume, whenever one saw a person walking down the street speaking loudly to no one in particular, that this person was insane. Today one commonly assumes that this same person is a sane individual speaking to someone else on a phone, but it might also be possible to assume that the implied rejection of one's immediate surroundings sugg