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JENNIFER MOODY For the E Back in the Before Times, when students went to school in person and live theater was a thing, five Albany students decided to take character backstories to a new level. It was late 2018 and Grace Foultner, Lilly Johnson, Noel Mayer, Ella Winter and Anika Ylen were seventh-graders; friends who called themselves the Banana Band. All had roles in a Memorial Middle School student production of âAlice in Wonderlandâ â along with more than two dozen of their classmates. With 33 people in the cast, the Banana Band had time to kill backstage. El...
One of the Most Evil and Insidious Movies Ever Made Tortilla Flat is one of the most evil and insidious movies ever made. The screenplay was drafted from John Steinbeck’s acclaimed novel. The subversive film is an unabashed celebration of anti-bourgeois or “underclass values” and behaviors such as improvidence, hedonism, purposelessness, promiscuity, immediate self-gratification of needs or wants, and capricious spontaneity or irresponsibility. The central theme of the movie is a relentless attack or denigration of property, how property ownership corrupts and destroys one’s soul....
Upon last week’s return to a changed Riverdale seven years into our present, I compared the lamentable state of the town to J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy, a reference point the latest episode grabs onto and clutches for dear life. With all the characters somewhat settled in their new lives (with the exception of Jughead, who doesn’t have two thin dimes to rub together, unless he Jokerfies himself into a Vance double by writing Elegy For A Small Town, but hold on, we’re getting there), the show requires a new focal point for its dramatic stakes, and the soul of Riverdale will do quite...