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Monday, May 22, 2006 12:00 AM

Beyond the Multiplex: Cannes

Gore gets standing O. Mitchell unveils his real-sex-orgy film. Plus: Gellar plays porn star in Richard Kelly's latest.

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  • Monday, May 22, 2006 11:16 AM

    A pity indeed

    Ms. Schwarz

    “I really wanted to vote for Gore. Never at any time was I actually for Nader. The problem with Gore, though, is that he is willing to lower the bar on honesty about science for the sake of politics. He's no more honest than Bush.”

    So that’s it? Gore’s alleged disingenuousness regarding the benefits of pot smoking makes him one in the same with G.W. Bush? Gee, you must feel a great sense of vindication these days, I mean bad as thing are, imagine what horrors a Gore presidency might have brought us, what with all that lying about the curative uses of grass. The mind reels.

    P.S.

    I’m all for sex in cinema, by all means, but I’m just wondering… doesn’t the whole “acting” thing preclude the need for actual sex in a work that is meant to be essentially fictive. Not that there’s anything wrong with it, I suppose if it moves the plot along or is important to a character’s development… what’s the harm? But still…

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