SELECTED FILM REVIEWS The Wackness Iron Man Billy the Kid/Juno Yeast Why We Fight The 40 Year-Old Virgin Mr. and Mrs. Smith The Aristocrats Pierrot le Fou SHORT ESSAYS Ginger Submits - the tactile magic of Fred Astaire The Cult of Julia - 10 Things I Hate About You, and the impossibility of post-feminist Elizabethan comedy Maury Povich and the proliferation of the free, televised paternity test Can't a Girl Ever Have it All? Down with Love and the Contemporary Romantic Comedy EXCERPTS FROM LONGER WORKS Planet Duran- from Hungry Like the Wolf: The Hangover of British Colonialism and the Music Videos of Duran Duran DOLLS vs. TRUCKS - from Spectacular: The Parallel Rise and Fall of the Internet Economy and the San Francisco Sex Industry TOO MANY GIRLS? - from Spectacular: The Parallel Rise and Fall of the Internet Economy and the San Francisco Sex Industry

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