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Movie Review "Shame" //LANDON MCDONALD
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If Valentine's Day left your heart clogged with an excess of gooey sentiment, head on down to Liberty Hall and bleed that sucker dry with "Shame," director Steve McQueen's lacerating rumination on sex without love, love beyond hope and epicurean angst in the city that never sleeps. To be clear, the subject of the NC-17 rated "Shame" is sex addiction, a topic too often consigned to the realm of chump comedy. Here it is presented clinically, devoid of all irony or even the semblance of titillation, a tightly wound character study with urgent implications on the lurid, lecherous beast that dictates so much of what we say and do.
On the surface, Brandon (Michael Fassbender) seems to have it all: looks, easy charm and a well-paying job at a generic Manhattan firm. Yet he has no ability to grasp matters of the heart, preferring instead to devote his attention to another bodily organ, a joyless compulsion that has driven him into a private hell of dingy sex clubs, group-discount prostitutes and a computer hard drive filthy enough to plug a landfill.
this tite of empty hedonism is interrupted by the whirlwind arrival of his sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan), another lost soul hoping to make it as a torch singer in a town full of attention-starved performers. Brandon's reaction to her dirge-like rendition of "New York, New York" conveys every bitter ounce of their shared, mercifully unspoken past. This scene, along with another single-take confessional towards the end, contains some of the most fraught, devastating uses of silence I've ever heard put to film.
Fassbender wears the Brandon character like a stretched-out leisure suit, to the point where you can literally see him coming apart at the seams as he struggles to balance his meticulous facade of normalcy with that insistent, all-consuming urge. Mulligan plays Sissy as a burnt-out angel, the course of her earthbound spiral weirdly beautiful to observe. Together, the two of them make self-destruction an emphatically creative experience, one whose themes resonate with all the power and potency of, well, an orgasm.
FINAL RATING: 3.5 OUT OF 4 STARS
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offense. There is no reason why the Jayhawks can't throw lob passes to Johnson and take advantage of his athleticism.
Even though Johnson has attempted more shots this season, because he has played more minutes, his field goal and three-point percentages last season were better.
Texas Christian University defensive end D. J. Vendrey (94) watches the ball fumbled by Boise State running back Drew Wright, bottom left, in the fourth quarter of an NCAA college football game, in Boise, Ind. Authorities arrested 17 students, three of which were on the football team, in a sweeping drug sting at TCU on Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2012.
Johnson has tremendous upside and talent. Now that the front court is playing up to its potential, the back court needs to follow suit.
Texas Christian University linebacker Tanner Brock (35) tackles BYU wide receiver O'Neil Chambers during an NCAA college football game in Fort Worth, Texas. Brock was one of three arrested in connection to the drug bust.
It's time for Johnson to snap out of his offensive woes and play like the player that he is capable of being. Kansas fans saw what he could do in the Jayhawks victory over the UCLA Bruins, scoring 23 points and shooting 62 percent from the court.
Taylor is playing as good as any guard in the country, and he is finally living up to the expectations that fans have bestowed on him.
Johnson's offensive production could play a big hand in deciding how far the Jayhawks can advance in the NCAA Tournament.
Edited by Jeff Karr
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ing narcotics on Wednesday morning.
"There are days people want to be a head football coach, but today is not one of those days. As I heard the news this morning, I was first shocked, then hurt and now I'm mad," TCU football coach Gary Patterson said in a statement released to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
The arrests came after a six-month investigation by the Fort Worth police.
The four players arrested are linebacker Tanner Brock, offensive tackle Tyler Horn, safety Devin Johnson, and defensive lineman D.J. Yendry.
Brock led the Horned Frogs in tackles in their 13-0 2010 season that concluded in a 21-19 Rose Bowl victory against Wisconsin. He missed most of the 2011 season due to injury.
Yendry tied for second on the team in 2011 with three sacks, while Johnson was second on the team recording eight tackles for a loss.
"Under my watch, drugs and drug use by TCU's student-athletes will not be tolerated by me or any member of my coaching staff. Period. Our program is respected nationally for its strong ethics and for that reason the players arrested today were separated from TCU by the University. I believe strongly that young peoples' lives are more important than wins or losses," Patterson said in the release to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.
According to Fort Worth Police chief Steve McGee, the drugs distributed included marijuana, cocaine, molly (a powdered form
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"There is no doubt all of these individuals are drug dealers," McGee said in a press conference Wednesday morning. "These individuals engaged in hand-to-hand delivery, for money, with undercover narcotic agents."
of ecstasy), ecstasy pills, acid and prescription drugs.
The four football players are no longer listed on the roster on the Horned Frogs' football website and have been separated from the University and are not attending classes.
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The arrests come the day after the Big 12 released its football schedule for next season. TCU
defense as they entered their first season as a member of the Big 12 football conference.
Brock was expected to be a leader on the Horned Frog's
will open its conference schedule at Kansas on Sept. 15.
Edited by Amanda Gage
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