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Issue Six of The Modern Review is now live

Read:
Ray Sawhill on Malcom X
Sean Macaulay on the Sun
Julie Burchill on Judith Krantz
Will Self on The Twelve Steps
Toby Young and Ed Barrett on postmodernism
Stephen Amidon on Slasher Films
Gary Bushell on Channel Four
Chris Weitz on Cindy Crawford

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If Chaplin ever felt oppressed by his later cultural importance—as he evidently did—the privileges were too great to refuse for an urchin who maintained that burning hunger in his heart.

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‘The ascendant theory behind this phenomenon could be termed the Paranoid Feminist critique, which maintains that these films are popular because they indulge a desire for ocular sadism on the part of a largely male audience, quenching the psychosexual bloodthirst of spotty, dove-chested teens from Sacramento to Surbiton.’

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‘This pair of Yorkshire terriers by Jeff Koons are not merely inviting us to laugh at the taste of ordinary people. The care with which he has crafted their gaudy, mantlepiece vulgarity seems to speak of a higher purpose’

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On the 12 step programme @wself

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Julie Burchill (@BoozeAndFagz) It’s like Harry Cohn said about moving pictures, “We make ’em by Jews, for Jews. But not with Jews.”

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Sean Macaulay writing about Kelvin MacKenzie (@kelvmackenzie) in 1993

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‘Malcolm’s father never earned enough money to support a family, and this was a family with 10 kids. He beat them, and beat his wife; he was also, one family friend told Perry, “a natural born whoremonger”. He didn’t die tied to streetcar tracks by white men in black hoods and robes, as the film would have it. Perry shows that he stormed out of the house after an argument, missed his step getting on a streetcar and fell under it.’

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Issue Six of The Modern Review is now live

Read:
Ray Sawhill on Malcom X
Sean Macaulay on the Sun
Julie Burchill on Judith Krantz
Will Self on The Twelve Steps
Toby Young and Ed Barrett on postmodernism
Stephen Amidon on Slasher Films
Gary Bushell on Channel Four
Chris Weitz on Cindy Crawford

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‘As the feisty, flirtatious one (all women’s teams have to have one), she persuades them to play hooky one night. Dodging their school-marm chaperone, they run off to the local bar to swing the night away at Choo Choo Ch’Boogie, providing the movie’s best scene.’

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‘But for those of us who spent the half-hour between teatime and bedtime on Saturday evenings cowering behind the sofa, the Tardis will be materializing in the Three Tuns Hotel in Durham on 17-18 October, the venue for this year’s Doctor Who Convention.’

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'Nick Hornby has produced a never over-stated, consistently enjoyable, often quite moving, utterly convincing book, which makes it the best book about football ever written.'