Movie Review Who is the real Monster?
Charlize Theron as Aileen “Lee” Wuornos is stunning and unrecognizable in “Monster,” written and directed by Patty Jenkins. When you see Lee, you don’t recognize Theron. Lee is big, has a false swagger, full of testosteronic tendencies. But most of all, she has a class stamp all over her.
Discurso Bush
Editorial
Hasten to Houston
The Thrill and the Agony This week in sports by Chas Walker
Bill Hogan, peace and justice activist
Political, religious and community leaders were among friends who paid tribute at a memorial for Bill Hogan held at Chicago’s St. Bride’s Catholic Church, Jan. 9.
U.S. empire exposed by caustic cartoons
Review Addicted to War By Joel Andreas AK Press Softcover, 64 pp., $8
The full-grown shrub is not a pretty sight
Book Review Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush’s America By Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose Random House, 2003 Hardcover, 347 pp., $24.95
Build unity to take back our country in 2004
Opinion A consensus is forming that progress in meeting human needs in our country is impossible as long as George W. Bush remains in the White House and the extremist Republicans control all three branches of government.
Arnold Becchetti, CPUSA leader
Arnold Becchetti, former national organization secretary and national treasurer of the Communist Party USA, died suddenly Dec. 27 while visiting family. He was 78 years old.
Book review: Speaking of wars
War Talk By Arundhati Roy Published by South End Press 2003 Softcover, 142 pages, $12
Cold Mountain and my summer vacation (a review)
Cold Mountain is a good movie, based on a good book by Charles Frazier. I think most reviewers missed the most important thing about the movie – it is movingly anti-war at a time when the Bush administration has the country bogged down in brutal occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan.
