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This belonged to my Dad when he was a boy (born 1919) and he loved motor bikes with sidecar. He used to race them in Holland. I used to play with it as a boy. It is only yesterday that I found out it is a Hubley and apparently quite rare especially since it has a working light. It is quite heavy.

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On the day that the two men charged with savagely attacking Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium in April pleaded not guilty — and officials announced the woman who drove them away from the scene won't be charged — Stow's family posted an uplifting update on their website. Here's part of it:
Yesterday we got the most response from Bry to date. He lifted his left leg slightly when asked, he raised his left arm everytime we asked if we could hold his hand, and the best part? Bonnie asked Bryan if she could have a kiss and every time she asked him, he puckered his lips. The final time when she was leaving, Bonnie asked again for a kiss. Bry turned his head towards her, puckered his lips for the kiss, then turned his head back. The nurse was shocked and excited to see that!
That level of mental responsiveness is good news. Here's hoping he continues improving.
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- Mix:
- 2 cups flour
- 2 tsp. baking powder
- 1 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup butter
- 1 cup milk
- 2 eggs lightly beaten
- Pour batter into a well greased 13 X 9" pan.
- Cover batter evenly with 2 cups sweetened fruit, along with whatever juice gets scooped up.
- Sprinkle with 1 cup of sugar.
- Carefully, pour on 1 ½ cups boiling water.
- Bake in a 375 degree oven for 30 minutes, until cake is golden and done.
- The cake rises, the fruit and water make a yummy, thick sauce.
- I love it with a little milk poured over it, my sister likes it with ice cream!
Terri's Notes
- This was one of my Grandmother's favorite recipes.
- Use Blackberries, Black Raspberries, Cherries, Blueberries...any fairly firm fruit that will bake.
- Black Raspberry is my favorite.
- The bags of frozen mixed berries work very well.
- Canned berries or cherries would work. Do NOT use pie filling.
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Looking Good
h/t Globe and Mail
21 comments:
- Shiner said...
Real Canadians drink crap beer.
Agreed though. Seeing this picture next to Clement being grilled on the homepage of the G&M all morning was nice.
- 1:26 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
"Real Canadians drink crap beer"
Ain't that the truth. I prefer 50 myself.
- 1:31 PM, July 27, 2010
- bigcitylib said...
Stay away from Blue. Every bottle has a dead rat in it. So they say.
- 1:50 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
Actually only 4% found rats in their Blue, according to the last mandatory census. 92% had the "runs" though.
- 1:58 PM, July 27, 2010
- Reid said...
When's Iggy going to change that shirt. It must be funky with the smell of BO, BBQ smoke, stale beef, stale beer, and fear and loathing by now.
- 2:25 PM, July 27, 2010
- Omar said...
50? Labatt 50? Jesus, I remember taking Labatt 50 to parties when we were kids as it would be the very last brand the other party goers would steal from the fridge!
These days I generally buy import beer as since a couple of years ago none of the local Maritime brewers (outside of the micro-breweries) produce 6-packs in bottles any longer. For me it all tastes like donkey piss if it comes in a can. Do they still make Molson Golden?
- 2:26 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
Yes, I brought 50 and pink lighters to all bush parties ;)
Only elitists engage in personal hygiene. Sheesh.
- 2:39 PM, July 27, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
Occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe, the beer Iggy's drinking was what was given to him?
About the shirt - he's worn several different shirts, that look almos the same because they all have blue plaid in them - and, Reid - did you never hear about doing laundry? When you are weeks and weeks on the road are you expected to take 30 or 40 different shirts? Reid - are you nuts or don't you do laundry?
- 2:58 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
"Occur to anyone that maybe, just maybe, the beer Iggy's drinking was what was given to him?"
It's just good fun, of course it was given to him. Everyone knows Michael is a Laker man.
- 3:16 PM, July 27, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
I know you're having fun and that's just fine with me. But, the Cons don't know how to have a little fun and they'll try to use against Iggy. They don't even have the humour of balls to make fun of Harper.
The Con supporters are to weak and afraid of fun when it comes to Harper. Sad isn't it?
- 3:32 PM, July 27, 2010
- Dylan said...
"It's just good fun, of course it was given to him. Everyone knows Michael is a Laker man."
I disrupted the library by laughing out loud at that.
During Ignatieff's stop at Laurier in the fall he drank a Canadian. That's more than what Harper would drink. The PM orders hot chocolate when he goes to Tim Horton's. (And somehow, people want to sit down with this guy for a beer that he wouldn't drink. I bet if you went out for dinner with him, he'd order a glass of water and some white bread.)
But seriously, if you're buying a beer for value and taste, it's gotta be Blue.
- 3:35 PM, July 27, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
I heard that Harper is a coke-a-holic - hence his weight problems - combine that with hot chocolate - I'd say Harper was a girly man
- 3:57 PM, July 27, 2010
- Tof KW said...
One word that should end this...
Steve you really drink 50?!?! That's old guy beer. I'm pretty sure I'm older than you and I wouldn't even touch the stuff. And to shame, you live in the home town of the Sleeman brewery.
- 3:59 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
Actually, I like my Heineken these days.
BTW, I don't live there. North.
- 4:03 PM, July 27, 2010
- Tof KW said...
Pardon me, thought you lived in Guelph.
Heineken is quite nice. I've been experimenting with a number of Czech and Polish beers lately. Life's too short to drink crap beer ...but that statement may make me an elitist.
- 4:11 PM, July 27, 2010
- Steve V said...
You probably like math and scientific reasoning too, elitist ;)
- 4:25 PM, July 27, 2010
- Tof KW said...
Is my bio degree showing? I used to love math too ...until 1st year calculus.
Sadly I must be an elitist. You know, for wanting to use numbers, and read big books and stuff.
- 4:52 PM, July 27, 2010
- JimmE said...
Somebodies other than hypsters & vets buvez les CINQUANTE?
Golly no PBR!?
In the olden dayz before Yanks, Belgians & Japanese owned the IN OUT store I drank Labatts IPA. Nowadays, I like the Mill Street, Steam Whistle, & Big Rock. Ifn I'm going for industrial sudz gotta be Moosehead (old school ALE Please!)
A tip for all Liberal Libationists laying in liquids for luaus there is a beer here in Ontario with the handle
GRITSTONE - very nice very hoppy.
- 6:02 PM, July 27, 2010
- Dame said...
HA HA HA Sandi....
By the way I just LOVE to watch this Liberal Express .
It is a Nice thing we can have fun and laugh!!!
- 6:04 PM, July 27, 2010
- RuralSandi said...
Hey Steve, maybe you should do a favourite beer poll - get an idea what real Canadians like.
I personally hate beer but hubby loves his suds. His favs - Blue and Heineken, but he'll drink whatever is put in front of him if that's all they've got.
- 6:08 PM, July 27, 2010
- ottlib said...
I know how Mr. Ignatieff can win a majority government this Fall.
A few weeks ago he was pictured carrying a couple of boxes of Timbits, presumably towards the bus.
Just imagine how his cred would increase if he was pictured carrying a couble of 24s of Canadian.
The benefit would be three-fold.
It would take the sting out of the "Just Visiting" meme of the Conservatives. Certainly no foreigner would buy Canadian beer.
Voters would see him as an ordinary guy who buys beer for his friends and staff.
I have yet to meet a journalist who did not warm up to you when you gave him free beer. So, the media would suddenly be writing nothing but glowing reports about him.
Make it happen Iggy!!
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Has Ashley Williams got a pic of Unsworth from the last Christmas party with a brass or something .should be nowhere near that squad let alone the team or football for that matter.
Fair enough.I'm not expecting anything life changing tactically from Unsworth as he's had limited time with the team, but if we work hard and play with discipline and passion then I'll be pleased regardless of the result (within reason)
Who plays cb ahead of him?Mori is injuredKeanes injuredWho else?
Who plays cb ahead of him?Mori is injuredKeanes injuredWho else?
You know exactly what you're going to get with Lennon. He's a hard worker, presses on and has pace. Something we've lacked all season. You need players you know are going to give a consistent performance for others to be able to build and work from.
Williams wasn't that bad mid-week.
I don't think Sigurdsson and Rooney can play together, if you want Rooney in and aren't going to play 2 up top, this is how you do it. You have to leave Sigurdsson out. I disagree, but it's a reasonable disagreement I think. I see Unsworth's point.
Unsworth is landed with a big turd in his lap couldn't slag him we lost every game and we got rellied.
He looks decent when we're 'backs to the wall' defending, but I really worry about him when teams try to get in behind. The worst thing for him today would be if he gets a needless yellow early on, which he seems to do quite a lot
Williams has been fine recently. Probably our best player against Lyon. Played decently against Chelsea too. He's a better option that holgate for starters. Surely everyone should get the same clean slate?
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Cyberpunk books and stories been making the same sorts of predictions since the 1980's. Envisioning a future where corporations are the real power and governments are just little puppet states that are allowed to continue to exist to make the plebs feel like they have a say in how things are going.
I'm not sure we'll ever actually get there. I can see a hard crackdown hitting Google and related companies over the span of the next 4-5 years. Especially since it seems both sides of the political spectrum are now taking issue with them. They hid for a long time behind the shield of social justice, but that shield has always been made of paper. Those folks eat their own all the time.


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An hybrid ATSC PCIe card from AVerMedia.
It is currently not supported under Linux.
The AVerTV Combo PCIe M780 features 2 RF inputs (one for analog, one for digital), and A/V inputs (S-Video and 1.5mm mini-stereo). An 8pin A/V header is also present on the card, which allows for additional input when used with PC cases that have built in front or rear panel A/V connectors (S-Video, Composite and L/R Audio).
The "white box" retail package includes a low riser bracket, 1.5mm male to L/R RCA female stereo audio adapter, composite to s-video adapter and a small 8-to-10 pin adapter cable for the front or rear panel a/v inputs (most PC cases featuring such support will have a 10pin front/rear A/V connector, but because the card is of a low profile form factor, the size of the connector on TV card's board had to be minimized, and hence the need to include this adapter). The retail package looks to add a remote controller, an IR blaster and receiver, and some other cable.
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- Panasonic AN5832SA (SIF demodulator)
- LG DT3303 (digital demodulator)
- NEC uPD61153 (video decoder & MPEG2 encoder)
- Micronas APB 7202A nGene (PCIe bridge)
- Some RAM
- An EEPROM IC (likely containing firmware for the nGene)
- two small ICs beneath the tuner modules ... one, at least, is undoubtedly an audio ADC for the A/V inputs
Notably absent on the face of the card is an analog video IF demodulator, which suggests that it is incorporated into the analog tuner. The fact that an external SIF demodulator is used by the card helps to narrow down the list of possible candidates for the analog tuner.
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According to WWE.com, Jim Ross has decided to retire from World Wrestling Entertainment after 20 years with the company.
The report says that it is effective today, and that Ross plans to pursue other business interests.
Ross still calls Oklahoma home and sells a collection of barbecue sauces, condiments and jerky.
Before being hired by WWE, Ross worked as a referee and all around go-boy in the Mid-South territory, run then by Leroy McGuirk and Bill Watts. It was in Mid-South where he found fame as an announcer.
Later, he moved to the NWA/World Championship Wrestling, where he rose into management and on the booking committee.
Ross was hired by WWE and debuted at WrestleMania in 1993 as an announcer. He eventually was a vice president, in charge of talent relations.
"Jim has made many contributions to WWE and the sports-entertainment industry, and we thank him for his many years of service and wish him well," reads the WWE.com report.
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Swansea FC continues to climb up to the Premier League as its style for passing the ball, rather than just steaming up the pitch, works. WSJ's Joshua Robinson explains the club's recent success.
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"Sorry, Charlie."
Can we talk about tuna cans?
For years we couldn't get American tuna in Israel. We'd beg our parents to bring it to us on their yearly jaunts to see the kids and oohed and ahhed over this product that had once seemed ubiquitous, back in our childhoods. And no. Don't even suggest that we eat the Israeli tuna (sticking finger down throat).
At long last we get Starkist Chunk Light Tuna (though not white albacore, sadly), had it for years, actually, but now they've gone and diddled with the can design. Starkist we can now get aplenty in the Holy Land, albeit with a ridiculous POP TOP lid.
Let's examine this design idea, shall we? Take Starkist packed in water. Aim the can one way, the juice squirts you straight in the eye. Aim it in the other direction, it goes on your clothes and you have the choice of showering and changing or perfuming your home with eau de Starkist as you go about your chores.
And draining the product? The lid CURLS when you pull the tab. How are you supposed to drain tuna the way God intended, by pushing the lid firmly into the can while upending the whole shebang and letting the liquid squeeze out the sides, without losing at least a quarter of the can's contents?
Time's up. MEEP.
Answer: you cannot!
Don't even get me started on tuna packed in oil. The minute I start yanking on the tab, the oil gurgles over the side of the can, onto the counter, the floor, and my hands. The tab and my hands get so coated in oil that about a quarter of the way across, the damned pull tab becomes useless because my slippery finger can't get any traction on the equally-slippery pull tab. I curse and dig the tuna out of the half-opened can with the tip of a knife, usually shredding my hand in the process and requiring first aid.
I have learned to stack the cans when opening several at a time which at least gives me a fighting chance, since the cans are now closer to eye level. On the other hand, it's important to wear goggles.
In addition to these aforementioned design issues, I note that the bottom inner edge of the can has a deeper ridge than in the former design, and a great deal of tuna gets stuck in the rut. This is probably necessary for the vacuum that is needed to make the pop top successful. I estimate that I am losing one-eighth of the can's contents to poor design. As a mother of a large family, I never make fewer than 6 cans of tuna at any one time, so this is a significant amount of protein literally going down the drain.
Now I want you to know that I did the American thing and complained directly to the company. I looked them up on Google and wrote to them via their company website "contact us" link. But did they send me an apologetic note, coupons, and all kinds of neato freebies? NO! Nada. Zilch.
It is quite bad enough to have to deal with milk in bags that look suspiciously like deformed cow udders and perform much the same way. Additionally, it sucks to deal with teeny tiny paper packets of baking powder. However, I have come to expect packaging issues with Middle Eastern products. This, I tell myself, is part of the sacrifice of living in the Holy Land and I accept these challenges wholeheartedly.
But this business with Starkist's pop top cans? It's simply un-American!


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As Capcom abandons the genre, and rumours point to a co-op Dead Space 3, will this year's E3 spell the death of survival horror?
This year it feels like E3 could be the final nail in the coffin for survival horror. After Dead Space 3 was unofficially confirmed by several sources, and South African retailer BT Games started accepting pre-orders, I started to get excited at the prospect that one of the last bastions of the genre would be getting a new entry. Then IGN sources reported that Dead Space 3 will include drop-in, drop-out co-op, and my excitement levels plummeted.
Ask any survival horror fan why co-op doesn't work in the genre, and they'll invariably cite the same example: Resident Evil 5. Whenever there was a sniff of danger, Sheva came running to drop-kick a few enemies and make life a cake-walk. Even with an equally-fallible friend taking the place of overpowered AI, the essence of fear is lost. The key features of survival horror are isolation and powerlessness, and these qualities quickly evaporate when a chum is right by your side. Heaven forbid you should die in a modern video game, because Sheva simply won't allow it. Even the most mortal of wounds can be dealt with via a quick slap on the back, getting you straight back into the action.
And that's the key word, 'action'. Capcom has stated that straight survival horror games simply don't sell enough to warrant triple-A releases anymore. Series producer Masachika Kawata stated himself in an interview with Eurogamer that the survival horror market is "small, compared to the number of units Call of Duty and all those actions games sell".
These are damning words for the genre, and seem to spell the end of Resident Evil as the flagship series for survival horror. But beyond that, these comments underscore the current trends of the industry. Rather than pursuing the ideas they are genuinely passionate about, many developers seem to be pro-actively pursuing the same basic premises as other games that have already sold millions. It's an understandable tactic up to a point, but this is exactly how video game series stagnate - by regurgitating the same ideas over and over, until gamers start to lose interest.
And then there's Dead Space. The first Dead Space was a true survival horror title - and had praise heaped upon it as a result - but its sequel definitely started the move towards action gaming. We'll have to wait and see what happens with Dead Space 3, but if the rumours of co-op play turn out to be true, it's hardly a promising sign. The apparent industry perception is that the only way a survival horror series can survive is to quickly deviate into another genre and speed up the gameplay. Why do publishers have such little faith in a genre when Dead Space's first entry alone proved that it can be successful? Not only do publishers remove fundamental gameplay elements, but with the addition of bland multiplayer, we horror-junkies are destined to go unsatisfied.
The argument goes that Capcom and EA are moving away from survival horror because the market is too small, but if that was the case, Dead Space wouldn't have succeeded in the first place. By moving these franchises into another genre, they are no longer a huge fish in a small pond, but a small fish in a very sizeable ocean. Dead Space and Resident Evil may be big names, but they are far bigger in the survival horror market than among the action crowd.
Capcom and EA are attaching action games to survival horror franchises, not the other way around. Capcom made the god-awful Operation Raccoon City, which was a critical flop, as well as The Mercenaries on 3DS, which wasn't great either. Dead Space and Resident Evil are well known as survival horror franchises, not action series. They have achieved success and acclaim as scary games, and that's why people love them. Many people will buy Resi 6 and Dead Space 3 based on their experiences with older entries in the franchises, which were survival horror experiences, which surely means that the genre still has a place in the industry.
But this is a flawed strategy because Capcom runs the risk of alienating both audiences. The survival horror faithful will no doubt be pissed off by the fact their beloved franchises aren't what they once were, and if action fans wanted to play Resident Evil, they would have done so by now. For an example of how such tactics can backfire, one need only look at EA's recent misadventures with Syndicate, or 2K's troubles with its XCOM brand. Fans went berserk when 2K announced a new XCOM game, only for it to be revealed as an FPS. 2K quickly back-tracked and have repeatedly delayed the game's release, while simultaneously announcing a new, more familiar turn -based strategy game. The overall lesson to learn from this? By throwing all their eggs in the action basket, publishers run a very real of risk of ruining their franchises.
For people like me, thankfully, all hope is not lost. The godfather of survival horror, and creator of the Resident Evil series, Shinji Mikami, announced recently he is working on a new "true survival horror game". Codename Zwei is being developed by Mikami-san's Tango studios, and published by Bethesda, the powerhouse behind The Elder Scrolls series. Mikami said he is "striving for pure survival horror", and is "being very hands-on with the development of this game to ensure the quality is there". This is music to my ears, and flies in the face of Kawata's comments, not only does it have the man behind the genre making sure the game is a pure example of survival horror, it's also backed by one of the biggest publishers in the industry. Mikami hasn't said much about Zwei, but he's said more than enough to get me excited.
If you want to know the kind of impact Shinji Mikami can have on a game, play Resident Evil 4 and 5. Mikami worked on Resi 4 and left before 5, and the difference was palpable. Even when Capcom started the push towards action in Resident Evil 4, Mikami still found a way to retain the series' focus on horror. Resident Evil 5 lost sight of this goal; it tried to do exactly what Mikami did with 4, only bigger, and without his genius - and it failed miserably.
It's obvious that we currently have a lot more questions than answers, but all that is about to change. With E3 right around the corner, hopefully EA, Capcom, and Bethesda will no doubt shed some light on what they have in store. At the very least we will see how Dead Space 3 plans to use co-op; maybe EA will prove me wrong and do something truly innovative and make co-op horrifying, but somehow I doubt it. Hope is all but lost for Resident Evil. E3 will no doubt allow Capcom to showcase all the new action-oriented features that promise to make Resident Evil 6 the least Resident Evil title yet. If anything, I expect the footage to be more akin to the mundane movie series.
We must all keep our fingers crossed for Bethesda and Mikami, and hope that Zwei makes an appearance that puts the other two to shame - not only to raise the spirits of survival horror fans, but to show the rest of the industry that it can be done.


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Jamie Bamber (of BSG fame) auditioned for the role of Jaime Lannister in HBO's pilot for Game of Thrones, a part that ultimately went to Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. This was revealed by him to Jackie, who reported it at the A Song of Ice and Fire Forum, at the Cylon Attack convention this past weekend in London.
Bamber would have been interesting in the role, although Jackie speculates that perhaps his average height ultimately weighed against him when the character of Jaime is supposed to be tall. That said, we know from remarks from GRRM and from at least one actor that has auditioned that the audition process leads them to keeping in mind actors for future roles. If the series goes forward, we may well see Bamber in a secondary role later on.


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CINCINNATI, Ohio, June 27, 2012 - Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted USDA's collaboration with General Electric (GE) Aviation, the Ohio Aerospace Institute, air carriers and producer groups to develop a Midwest-regional strategy to provide renewable-jet fuel at GE Aviation's Cincinnati-area facilities. Vilsack discussed how this effort is helping grow local jobs by bringing together agricultural producers, processing and transportation entities, refiners and finishers, academics and researchers, and analysts and financial entities. GE Aviation anticipates purchasing up to 5 million gallons of renewable-jet fuel beginning in 2015.
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USDA recently awarded a Value Added Producer Grant to the Ohio Soybean Council to help initiate a pilot project through Ohio State University's Bioproducts Innovation Center to refine bio-jet fuel from soybean oil produced by farmer-owners of Ohio's Mercer Landmark cooperative in western Ohio. Renewable-jet fuel produced from various plant oils (e.g. camelina, pennycress, inedible corn oil, algae) has been certified by the American Society of Testing and Materials for aviation use, and is currently being used in limited commercial service. Such a pilot project could provide the basis for commercializing renewable-jet fuel production for future aviation purchases.
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Vilsack also highlighted how USDA is working with federal partners like the Department of Energy (DOE), Department of the Navy and the Federal Aviation Administration to improve our country's energy security and provide sustainable jobs in communities across the country. Last August, President Obama announced a partnership between USDA, DOE and Navy to invest up to $510 million during the next three years in partnership with the private sector to produce advanced, drop-in aviation and marine biofuels to power military and commercial transportation.
At Secretary Vilsack's direction, USDA is working to develop the national biofuels industry producing energy from non-food sources in every region of the country. Working with private and government partners, USDA is supporting research into innovative energy technologies and processes, helping companies build biorefineries - including the first ever commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities - and supporting farmers, ranchers, and businesses taking risks to pursue new opportunities in biofuels.
Creating new markets for the nation's agricultural products through biobased manufacturing is one of the many steps the Administration has taken over the past three years to strengthen the rural economy. Since taking office, President Obama's Administration has taken historic steps to improve the lives of rural Americans, put people back to work and build thriving economies in rural communities. From proposing the American Jobs Act to establishing the first-ever White House Rural Council - chaired by Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack - the President is committed to a smarter use of existing Federal resources to foster sustainable economic prosperity and ensure the government is a strong partner for businesses, entrepreneurs and working families in rural communities.
Additional information on USDA's energy accomplishments can be found here.
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To this day, it stays with me.
In the early '90s, I was walking down Harwood Street in Vancouver's West End, between Cardero and Burrard, a distance of about eight long blocks. It was a sunny and warm late spring morning–the birds chirping and the blossoms on the ornamental cherry trees in full bloom–and I was on my way to catch the bus to work.
About half way, I found myself following a couple of young men. I'd guess they were in their early twenties (about ten years younger than me at the time), both cute and recognizably gay. One had a small dog on a leash. I couldn't stop watching them, partly because they were directly in front of me, and partly because they fascinated me. I don't think they knew I was behind them.
A couple of blocks before Burrard, where I caught my bus, the two young men stopped and kissed–nothing showy, just a simple peck on the mouth. They looked back and saw me walking toward them. One turned left then and started walking up the street toward downtown Vancouver; the other kept strolling along the sidewalk, dog in tow. I passed him and continued on my way to the bus stop.
The kiss had surprised me. Sure, Vancouver's West End is known as a popular area of the city for gay men, but this was the early '90s, when I don't recall seeing many men hold hands, let alone kiss, outside the gay clubs or a few blocks on Davie Street, now known as the gay village. The young men had taken a risk, no question. But no one could have been happier than me that they did.
There was no question in my mind the two young men were a couple; or, at least, I wanted them to be. And, at that point in my life, I hadn't seen many gay male couples, let alone any who were tender to each other in public, with little regard for being seen or upsetting an onlooker's sensibilities. In other words, the kiss seemed as natural as could be, not at all out of place.
All that day at work, I felt lighter than I had in a very long time. Foremost on my mind were the two young men I'd seen that morning, and the way they'd been with each other. Whether they realized it or not–I'm sure they didn't–they'd given me a gift. They'd given me hope. To me, they were an example of what a gay male couple looked like, what young men in love with each other looked like.
For perhaps the first time, I began to see what was possible for me. On the bus that morning, I remember saying to myself, I will have what they have someday. And I believed it. I truly did. As far as I was concerned, if they could have what they had, why the hell couldn't I? What was possible for them was just as possible for me.
A year or so later, I met Chris. My life changed for the better. My life changed forever.


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So I'm 18, and still live with my parents. I've also been an Atheist for two years now, and have never looked back at my former Christian faith.
So my mom and family still think that I'm a Christian, and they haven't really asked me much about my faith, but recently, my mom is really making a push to get me to read the read the bible, pray, etc. , and it is really starting to make me feel very uncomfortable.
The point is, I want to tell my family that I'm an Atheist, but I'm not sure how. If I just come out and tell my mom, she's going to kill me, I just know it, and may even take away my laptop and android tablet.
Does anyone have any experience with this and can offer suggestions? I really need help! I don't want to keep pretending to be a Christian! I want my family to know who and what I am, and I don't want to keep it a secret.
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You can also forget about having to feel guilty about secrets while you wait until you're emancipated from your parents home. Remember, …a personal belief, or personal non belief is just that; personal. Not telling them, or waiting to tell them is like that, a personal choice. You're neither betraying your parents nor any kind of non believer "ideal".
Yeah .. really cool Richard.
Well said, David. Well said.
That's my plan. I feel quite guilty, but I'm going to stick with it.
Id say read the bible while your at it. It never hurts to read what ever the literature, then you can start pointing things out to your mom like How would they have possibly gotten 2 of every animal on a small wooden ship and How did an old man climb a mountain twice and just to talk with a burning bush. Then you can say the things you learned while going through it properly was also a deciding factor against religion when you eventually come out to your parents.
The story of the crazy warlord dynasty, eh?
I would agree that it's sound advice to read through the bible. It will certainly keep your family happy even though you are being deceptive, as well as enlighten you to the many contradictions and hypocritical claims therein.
And waiting until you move out to drop the bomb is a good idea too - remember that you will have to live with the repercussions of anything you admit to your parents while you are under their roof. Stay strong and look forward to a good time at college!
I waited until I was out of my parents' house and financially independent to come out to them as both gay AND atheist (but not at the same time -- came out gay in 2009, and atheist just last year). Bizarrely, they took my being an atheist hardest of all. But there's no way I could've done either while still living at home and not gotten (if you'll pardon the expression) hell for it.
Excellent advice. I have firmly decided that I don't dare tell them until I move away, because I know that my mom will bombard me until I 'succumb' if I tell her my Atheism. I will not let that happen. It'd make my life living torture.
Yeah. Consider that you're living at home, under their rules, and there's the threat of retaliation (like you said, taking away your laptop, tablet, etc), it's not worth it. My parents would have for sure dragged me in front of the church elders. My dad actually tried to exorcise demons from me once because he thought I was possessed. Your parents sound as fundie as mine are, and it was hard enough interacting with them after coming out to them because every conversation would lead to an attempt to "bring me back." Once my dad exclaimed, "I guess you just want to go to hell!" But they had no sway over me as an adult. Eventually you'll be able to do the same!
I have read it, and pointed out the things like that to myself. I've also used resources like the Skeptics Annotated Bible and the "Evil Bible." I don't dare point out that stuff to my mom yet, though. Since she's a pretty diehard Christian, she certainly won't take it very well, and might catch on to my skepticism. That can't happen now, it's too early. I need to wait until I go to college and have a place to go if things get heated, because my mom and my sister will certainly not let me go 'unsaved.'
Yes. My approach to Twitter and social media was formed by being with my fundamentalist family. When you start thinking about every piece of communication that you're sending out and how it's going to be interpreted, you become much more intentional. It's easy to get into a sort of seige mentality, where every interaction is a potential battle. My advice would be to just disengage as much as possible from "spiritual" conversations. Be polite, but walk away as often as possible. They might be puzzled and concerned, but for now be Switzerland.
I'm going to sound like an echo here, but indeed, until you are a free agent, keeping your atheism private is the best choice for you.
And sure - read the bible - read the parts that NO ONE TALKS ABOUT. Neat stuff in Leviticus about seafood and in Deuteronomy about women and rape. Judges 19 has a LOVELY passage about how a father apparently feels about his daughter (as it happens, I'm a father who wouldn't do what that that guy did with his daughter on my WORST DAY!). The Skeptic's Annotated Bible has all sorts of this stuff.
Oh, and LISTEN ... to Dawkins and Harris and, of course, to Hitchens. They're all over YouTube. Use headphones if you have to, but do listen. These guys have inspired the daylights outta me, and they could do the same for you.
Most of all, get to know who you are, atheism and all, and be strong in yourself. That way, when the day comes that your folks HAVE to know, you can stand your ground and NOT back down. No, that's not easy, not remotely, but when you tell them that this is no "phase" you're going through, that this is part of who you are, maybe you can at least start the seed of some respect for your position in them.
One last matter: you need help? YOU GOT HELP. Granted, I can't do much from here on the North Coast, but if I can answer a question or find you a needed reference text or video, I'll take my best shot.
Do please hang in there, Alex. You Are Worth It!
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The 50 most controversial movies ever
Warning: What follows is explicit. These movies (and their accompanying photos) are not chosen for their beauty, but rather for their primal power to shock. And why is that important? Sometimes, in the case of politics and sex, filmmakers can be liberators, leading a charge that elevates the medium's significance. Elsewhere—especially in the case of violence—a movie can warn us of where we might be headed. These 50 entries are the extremes. We welcome your response.
I Spit on Your Grave (1978)
If this is our lowest-ranking title, better brace yourself for punishment. Meir Zarchi's scuzzy rape-revenge thriller (also marketed under the name Day of the Woman) limped into theaters, and was immediately banned all over the world. Its most notorious scene, a bathtub seduction that comes to an edge, inspired critical derision, but also, provocatively, a wave of feminist cheers.—Joshua Rothkopf
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The Wild Bunch (1969)
These days, it's not extraordinary for Hollywood to release a superviolent spectacle with a body count in the hundreds. But when feisty Sam Peckinpah did it, he pointedly evoked the ongoing war in Vietnam and created a blood-spouting whirlwind that confronted American righteousness. The Western genre never recovered.—Joshua Rothkopf
Titicut Follies (1967)
Frederick Wiseman's unflinching look inside a Massachusetts facility for the criminally insane was so disturbing (and revealing) that the state tried to permanently bury it. Authorities placed an injunction on public showings that wasn't lifted until 1991. It's one of the few movies banned for reasons other than obscenity, politics or immorality.—David Fear
The Devils (1971)
The kind of movie that ends with a deformed nun furiously masturbating with the dead hero's amputated femur, Ken Russell's operatic drama about the sexual fervor that overtakes a small religious enclave in 17th-century France was never going to have an easy go. Butchered upon its initial release in 1971, a full cut of the film had only screened in the U.K. three times as of 2011. (A DVD is now available.)—David Ehrlich
Basic Instinct (1992)
Everyone remembers Sharon Stone's crotch flash, but Paul Verhoeven's thriller (penned by smutmeister Joe Eszterhas in a mere 13 days) produced a fair amount of offscreen heat, too, as gay groups furiously decried the image of homicidal lipstick lesbians. Riot police patrolled locations; no ice picks went unaccounted for.—Joshua Rothkopf
Hail Mary (1985)
Jean-Luc Godard's provocative update of the Virgin Mary story—featuring full-frontal nudity—was denounced by no less than the Pope, and one angry Christian threw a pie in the director's face at Cannes. Godard's intention was to examine modern spirituality; the reaction he engendered, however, wasn't exactly full of grace.—David Fear
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
The explosive arrival of Quentin Tarantino sent ripples through the indie world: A deluge of chatty criminals spouting monologues about pop culture would follow for years. But in the film's moment of release, the reaction was much more severe: Walk-outs were common during Michael Madsen's ear-cutting scene—and even included horror mavens Wes Craven and makeup artist Rick Baker.—Joshua Rothkopf
The Moon Is Blue (1953)
When Otto Preminger included the then-racy terms virgin, mistress and seduce in his lecherous comedy, the movie industry's morality police went into a froth. Head Hollywood censor Joseph Breen refused to grant the movie a seal of approval, so Preminger & Co. released the film without the MPAA's blessing—marking the beginning of the end of the Hays Code stranglehold.—David Fear
United 93 (2006)
Upon the 2006 release of Greengrass's nauseatingly vivid recreation of the commandeered 9/11 flight that never hit its target, so many people said "too soon" that the phrase could have been the movie's tagline. But the verisimilitude of Greengrass's film helped confer a concrete reality upon an event that still feels like a collective nightmare, and some families of the passengers came to the premiere to show their support.—David Ehrlich
The Brown Bunny (2003)
Remembered as the movie with the blowjob that brought Cannes to its knees, Vincent Gallo's second feature—and the controversy around it—had less to do with Chloë Sevigny fellating the director than it did with critics' refusal to do the same. When Roger Ebert declared it the worst movie in Cannes history, Gallo called Ebert a "fat pig with the physique of a slave trader."—David Ehrlich
Ken Park (2002)
Step aside, Skins: For years, indie provocateur Larry Clark suffered (or maybe relished) attacks by critics, who called his photographs—and movies like Kids (see No. 22) and Bully—teen exploitation. Eventually, Clark decided to properly earn the outrage and make an extreme film. Ken Park, filled with depictions of underage sex, violence and suicide, never found a U.S. distributor.—Joshua Rothkopf
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
No stranger to breaking screen taboos (see No. 43), Otto Preminger went a step further with this drug-addiction drama, in which Frank Sinatra's strung-out musician shoots up. People were equal parts aghast at the film's daring depiction of a dope fiend and impressed by its realistic take on the subject. Legions of high-wire screen-junkie performances owe this groundbreaking film a debt.—David Fear
The Last House on the Left (1972)
You'd think basing a movie on an Oscar-winning Ingmar Bergman classic (1960's The Virgin Spring) would exempt a young filmmaker from scandal. Not so with Wes Craven, who found his scuzzy tale of rape, murder and parental revenge targeted by censor boards, chopped into incoherence and banned in several countries including England. It was only as recent as 2008 when Brits could finally see the uncut version.—Joshua Rothkopf
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Paradoxically, the movie isn't all that gory—certainly not like some of the other entries on this list. Yet Tobe Hooper's proto–slasher film unsettled censors around the world, leading to its prohibition in such unlikely places as Sweden, Ireland and Brazil. A thick slab of barbecued menace, the thriller still inspires smart, young directors—and plenty of dumb ones, too.—Joshua Rothkopf
Song of the South (1946)
"Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" may be one catchy tune, but folks have never been pleased with how this Disney film whistled Dixie about the antebellum South. Plantation life is whitewashed into one big happy-slave playdate. Even during its production, the movie inspired accusations of racism—and don't get us started on the "Tar Baby" section. It remains a taint on the Mouse House to this day.—David Fear
Dirty Harry (1971)
It's a key entry in the iconography of Clint Eastwood, and you won't find an action fan who can't recite the entire "Well, do you, punk?" speech by heart. But during its release, the movie sparked a fierce war of words, with prominent critics calling it fascist, bigoted and unnecessarily brutal. They had a point: Police in the Philippines ordered a print for training purposes.—Joshua Rothkopf
Cannibal Holocaust (1980)
Excruciating to watch, this Amazonian misadventure (shot on location) spurred massive outrage for its special effects being too good. A notorious scene of a naked woman's impalement actually led to the Italian director's arrest for murder. After those charges were successfully disputed, the movie was still widely banned due to incidents of animal abuse—which, alas, were not faked.—Joshua Rothkopf
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
We should be thankful for all the controversy that Fritz Lang's crime movie inspired—it almost certainly saved the director's life. The ominous plot (about a criminal mastermind) had some obvious parallels to the then-current rise of Hitler, and when propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels took exception, Lang fled the country in a panic. Germany's loss would be America's gain.—Joshua Rothkopf
Deep Throat (1972)
The movie became a fashionable urban sensation—no doubt to the delight of many men—and touched the culture at large with its appropriation in the Watergate scandal. But behind its porny surface, the flick induced headaches related to its mob financing, its obscenity and conspiracy charges (the latter related to transportation across state lines) and theatrical barrings.—Joshua Rothkopf
Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971)
"Rated x by an all-white jury," proclaimed the poster for Melvin Van Peebles's epoch-defining provocation, which ruffled feathers across the racial divide. Caucasian critics claimed the film would incite riots, while black pundits argued that Van Peebles was reinforcing negative stereotypes. Neither group stopped this incendiary indie from breaking box-office records, thus royally pissing off the Man.—David Fear
Scarface (1932)
Fans of Brian De Palma's coke-laced remake owe themselves a visit to the original, considered wildly inappropriate in its day. Hollywood censors objected to the violence, the glamorization of crime and intimations of incest; they insisted on both a new ending and a new title, Scarface: The Shame of the Nation. Megabucks producer Howard Hughes scoffed and disowned the edit.—Joshua Rothkopf
Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Times Square hustlers, lowlife junkies and free-lovin' hippies—could suburban audiences stomach John Schlesinger's nightmarish New York City? The MPAA didn't think so, instantly slapping this depraved drama with a dreaded X rating. Oscar voters thought otherwise, though, making it the only "adults only" movie to win Best Picture.—David Fear
I Am Curious (Yellow) (1967)
When Vilgot Sjman's sexually explicit Swedish drama was brought into this country, custom agents seized it at the airport. Suddenly, this foreign film became a cause clbre; the case went all the way to the Supreme Court before obscenity charges were dropped. The bold movie paved the way for all the art-house smut and porn-chic that followed.—David Fear
Faces of Death (1978)
It doesn't matter that much of this "documentary" was faked (director John Alan Schwartz, working under the name Conan le Cilaire, also played the leader of a flesh-eating cult). It still represents an essential rite of passage for thousands of teenage sleepovers, inculcating a taste for naughtiness. Monkey brains? Nah. All special effects.—Joshua Rothkopf
The Outlaw (1943)
Hollywood is unsurpassed at spending fortunes on ridiculous whims, but superproducer Howard Hughes set the bar high when he devoted his considerable resources to designing a bespoke cantilevered bra for his well-endowed star Jane Russell. Even with censors in a huff and public watchdogs on high alert for boobage, the movie became a sensation and ultimately a commercial success.—Joshua Rothkopf
Henry & June (1990)
Philip Kaufman's adventurous biopic about libidinous literary mavericks Henry Miller and Anas Nin proved that the new NC-17 rating carried the same stigmas as its X predecessor, with media-outlet boycotts turning the film into cinema non grata. Overnight, Kaufman's erotic love story became a culture-wars flash point.—David Fear
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
The Hannibal Lecter story that towers over them all, director Jonathan Demme's thrillerate the competition for dinner at the Academy Awards. But the film's accolades were accompanied by accusations of transphobia. Some felt that Buffalo Bill, who kills women and dresses in their skin, might not have been the best representation of the LGBT community. Demme obviously took these concerns about queer characters to heart: His next film was Philadelphia.—David Ehrlich
Do the Right Thing (1989)
Now it's an undeniable NYC classic but at the time of its debut, Spike Lee's incendiary drama—set on the hottest day of a tense Brooklyn summer—made plenty of reviewers sweat, even in their praise. Several considered the potential for riots in movie theaters, a claim that Lee found racist. Significantly, Do the Right Thing is one of the few movies on this list that provokes via its ideas, not brutal imagery or explicitness.—Joshua Rothkopf
Kids (1995)
Moral pundits don't like seeing wanton sex, drug usage and criminal activities in movies; throw in underage teens doing all the above and you've got a bona fide uproar on your hands. Photographer-turned filmmaker Larry Clark certainly didn't skimp on the adolescent bad behavior in his film debut (scripted by budding auteur Harmony Korine), prompting accusations of child porn and forcing Miramax to buy back the movie from its parent company, Disney.—David Fear
Ecstasy (1933)
Sexual intercourse is implied rather than shown in this frenzied German film about a love triangle (tame by today's standards). But the close-ups of blushing Hedy Lamarr, in clear rapture during an illicit encounter with a hunky construction worker, were enough to raise the hackles of the National Legion of Decency, which banned its importation. Pope Pius XI publicly denounced it, which didn't help either.—Keith Uhlich
The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Mel Gibson's hyperviolent 2004 retelling of Jesus's final hours was a rare master class in how to piss off people on all sides: Catholics disputed its Papal endorsement ("It is as it was," Pope John Paul II may have said), Jews accused it of being an anti-Semitic screed (this was two years before Gibson drunkenly said that Jews were "responsible for all the wars in the world"), and critics derided its savagery. (David Edelstein, writing for Slate, called it "a two-hour-and-six-minute snuff movie.")—David Ehrlich
"Un Chien Andalou" (1929)/"L'Age d'Or" (1930)
Luis Buuel didn't pull any punches with his first two shorts. The 16-minute "Un Chien Andalou" memorably features a woman's eyeball slit by a razor, while the 60-minute L'Age d'Or, a scathing attack on bourgeois society, so incensed its first audiences that the financiers pulled it from distribution.—Keith Uhlich
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Peeping Tom (1960)
Once celebrated at the highest levels of the biz for making sumptuous masterpieces like The Red Shoes (1948) and The Tales of Hoffman (1951), director Michael Powell suffered a career-ruining blow when this squirm-inducing thriller (about a deranged photographer who kills models with his knife-loaded camera) was critically savaged. Finland banned it, but Brian De Palma was watching.—Joshua Rothkopf
Crash (1996)
David Cronenberg's vividly erotic thriller—about an underground cult that gets off on highway accidents—left censors hot and bothered. U.S. distributors were forced to release separate R and NC-17 versions. Britain approved it, though a local council barred the movie from screening in certain venues. And Italian critics demanded Cronenberg return his Cannes prize. Seems some folks could use a little nookie.—Keith Uhlich
The Exorcist (1973)
So much rumor and urban myth swirl around what is widely considered the freakiest horror movie ever made, it demands a place on our list. Fires and injuries led director William Friedkin to have the set of his "cursed" film blessed by a priest. Alleged subliminal imagery supplied extra spookiness (it was just good editing). And Linda Blair required a bodyguard for months.—Joshua Rothkopf
Pink Flamingos (1972)
Intending to transgress, John Waters left no taboo untried on this, his most beloved cult movie, starring his friend, the rapturously dramatic Divine, and a host of Baltimore misfits. The film is peppered with riotous awfulness: sex with a live chicken, depictions of incest, a close-up of a proudly exposed anus. But it's the shit-eating climax—unfaked—that cements its reputation.—Joshua Rothkopf
Life of Brian (1979)
Monty Python's Flying Circus could make fun of the Queen without attracting trouble, no problem. But the minute they made a satire about an average Nazarene layabout mistaken for the Messiah, its members started getting death threats. Picket lines followed, while Christian organizations complained that mocking Jesus was a mortal sin; the irony was that Python was actually ridiculing religious zealots.—David Fear
Cruising (1980)
Controversy plagued William Friedkin's leather-bar murder mystery even before it screened for audiences. Gay activists were so offended by the film's purportedly fearmongering depictions of Manhattan's queer underground that they disrupted shooting. Once it was released, protests only intensified, though the film has since been viewed more favorably (by gay critics, in some cases) and regarded as a time capsule of a lost subculture.—Keith Uhlich
In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
It's no surprise that Nagisa Oshima's deranged erotic masterpiece, about the pungent sexual infatuation between a hotel maid and her employer in pre-WWII Tokyo, was so controversial upon its release in 1976. Based on the true story of Sada Abe and featuring a number of clearly unsimulated sex acts (as well as some shocking violence), the film was only able to bypass Japanese censorship laws by claiming status as a French production. In the U.S., it was effectively banned until 1990: Even its stateside premiere at the New York Film Festival was cancelled.—David Ehrlich
Straw Dogs (1971)
A deeply disturbing, ugly film that nonetheless spurs valuable discussion, Sam Peckinpah's thriller takes places on an isolated English farm, where meek American mathematician David (Dustin Hoffman) takes brutal revenge on the locals who violate his wife. How much does Amy enjoy that rape, though? The question was explosive; censors demanded cuts, and the stage was set for a public outcry.—Joshua Rothkopf
Poison (1991)
Todd Haynes's groundbreaking indie—a highly stylized and sexually explicit triptych based on the writings of Jean Genet—heralded the arrival of New Queer Cinema and drew the ruthless attentions of family-values pundits after it won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. The chief antagonist was Reverend Donald Wildmon, who called for the firing of the chairman of the National Endowment of the Arts, which had given Haynes a $25,000 grant. Several other naysayers followed suit: "I've seen more artistically meritorious productions on America's Funniest Home Videos," said Baptist Church spokesman Jim Smith. The NEA chair did eventually resign under pressure, while Haynes continued to upend conventions in exceptional work like Safe and Velvet Goldmine.—Keith Uhlich
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Audiences were used to living vicariously through tommy-gun-wielding gangsters breaking the law with panache. What they weren't prepared for was seeing the bloody aftermath of their antiheroes' activities rendered in living color. This film's use of startlingly realistic violence—oddly coupled with jaunty banjos and jokey moments—caused a furor among those who thought it made murder seem sexy and frivolous. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times complained that the movie's "brutal killings [were] pointless and lacking in taste." But younger critics such as Pauline Kael came to the movie's defense, contextualizing its horrors within the civil unrest going on outside of theaters. Crowther eventually lost his job over the review, while Bonnie and Clyde precipitated a vital American New Wave—and opened the floodgates for countless slo-mo bullet ballets.—David Fear
Last Tango in Paris (1972)
"Go get the butter," says Marlon Brando purposefully, in a movie that premiered at the prestigious New York Film Festival. Cognoscenti were then treated to a lengthy scene of anal sex that many hailed as psychologically expressive, others as smut parading as art. The tumult only spread from there: Curious theatergoers were yelled at by protesters, while the doomy romance met with outright banning in Chile, Spain and even director Bernardo Bertolucci's native Italy, where his civil rights were revoked for five years. Fortunately, critical praise saved the day, with The New Yorker's Pauline Kael going out on a limb in the most famous review of her career: "This is a movie people will be arguing about, I think, for as long as there are movies," she wrote. Her invitation still stands.—Joshua Rothkopf
Viridiana (1961)
Luis Buuel looses another assault on all that's holy. The Spanish provocateur's masterful tale of the eponymous young nun, whose faith is sorely tested during a visit to her uncle's estate, was the bane of several gatekeepers. Dictator Francisco Franco unsuccessfully attempted to have the film withdrawn from circulation after it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes (in the end, he just banned it at home). And the Vatican made its displeasure known in its official newspaper, describing the movie as blasphemous. (A scene in which a bunch of rabble-rousing vagrants reenact The Last Supper probably had something to do with that.) For the rest of us, Buuel's potent mix of the sacred and profane is endlessly exhilarating.—Keith Uhlich
Freaks (1932)
To fully understand the traumatizing potency of this Hollywood shocker, first try to imagine a director on the power level of a James Cameron. That's basically what Tod Browning was in 1931, after making Dracula a global box-office phenomenon. The time had finally arrived for Browning to advance his long-gestating personal project, about unloved carnival people whose code is broken by an insider. To MGM's horror, Browning insisted on using real circus performers with deformities. Infamously, a test screening induced one woman's miscarriage (and the threat of a lawsuit); several scenes involving violent revenge were excised. A 64-minute version made it to theaters but was quickly dimmed after horrified public reaction. It wasn't until the 1960s that Freaks found a sympathetic audience in the counterculture. By then, Browning's career was long ruined.—Joshua Rothkopf
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
The faux-literary tag line for Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel pretty much sums it up: "Being the adventures of a young man whose principal interests are rape, ultra-violence and Beethoven." Let's just say it wasn't the Beethoven that had half of Britain calling for Kubrick's head. A future-shock parable about free will, this vivid depiction of a charismatic gang leader gained instant notoriety for its extreme violence and prolonged scenes of sexual assault. Politicians debated whether the movie's nihilism outweighed any merits it possessed, newspaper columnists around the world called it everything from misogynistic to fascistic, and social critics fretted over whether the movie's cultish fans would become Clockwork copycats. After defending the movie for months, Kubrick himself prohibited the movie from being shown in England, where the controversy had reached a fever pitch. It wouldn't be publicly exhibited there for decades.—David Fear
The Birth of a Nation (1915)
In one fell swoop, D.W. Griffith's Civil War epic gave the filmmaking world the basic grammar of modern cinema. But the same game-changing gesture also distorted history, recast reprehensibly racist attitudes as heroic and helped revitalize the Ku Klux Klan into the most powerful hatemongering organization of its day. No less than President Woodrow Wilson gave the film his blessing, while the NAACP and other groups decried it as being trumped-up propaganda. The more audiences across the country were exposed to white-sheeted good guys riding to the rescue of Lillian Gish, the louder the cries against prejudice grew. Riots erupted in major cities; in Boston, audience members threw eggs at the screen. Even these days, the silent film still sparks outrage: A proposed 2004 screening at Los Angeles's Silent Movie Theatre was canceled after arson threats. The film's formal influence is matched only by its ugliness.—David Fear
Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975)
A fearsome gauntlet that all lovers of foreign film must run, Pier Paolo Pasolini's flesh-tearing drama comes from the lurid writings of the Marquis de Sade. Episodes of torture were transposed to Benito Mussolini's Fascist Italy of the early-1940s, where sexual decadence could also function as a political critique of then and now. But good luck trying to engage on that high-minded level: The movie was banned in Britain and Australia, and caused a stir nearly 20 years later in America, when the owners of a Cincinnati video store were arrested for "pandering." The movie has undoubtedly become a influence on provocateurs like Michael Haneke and Lars von Trier. Yet its most upsetting legacy might be the fate of Pasolini himself, mysteriously murdered only weeks before its world premiere.—Joshua Rothkopf
Triumph of the Will (1934)
To her dying day, director Leni Riefenstahl insisted she was not a Nazi; she merely made the single most famous piece of propaganda about them ever conceived. The fact that Riefenstahl's magnum opus captures Hitler in full fascistic bloom at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally is enough to qualify her content as repugnant. (Screenings are still forbidden in Germany.) But Riefenstahl's remarkable skill in stylizing the marching troops and the fhrer's screeds makes this film debate fodder to this day. "There were other documentaries about the Nazi rallies," Roger Ebert said. "But no one remembers [them]; they weren't as good." Triumph of the Will remains exhibit A in the argument about aesthetic beauty used in the service of ideological evil. Its indelible compositions and sense of space are undeniably brilliant; the result of its director's creative genius furthered a legacy of evil.—David Fear
The Last Temptation of Christ (1988)
An explosive tour de force from one of our greatest filmmakers, Martin Scorsese's long-gestating passion project shares elements with several films on our list: sex, violence, Jesus Christ. But this reimagining of Nikos Kazantzakis' speculative novel about the Son of God's human fallibility easily ascends to the top of our countdown due to the sheer furor it inspired worldwide. Pundits denounced it. The Vatican and numerous Christians took vocal issue with the extended sequence in which Jesus imagines an alternate life for himself (sun-dappled sex scenes included) with the prostitute Mary Magdalene. One French fundamentalist group launched Molotov cocktails into a Paris theater, injuring several patrons. And some countries banned the film sight unseen (it still can't be shown in the Philippines or Singapore). Lost in all the commotion is the film itself: Beautifully performed (especially by Willem Dafoe as Jesus), impeccably shot and scored (Peter Gabriel's propulsive soundtrack is one for the ages), it's the work of a true believer in both movies and mankind.—Keith Uhlich


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