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Article: 'Ayn Rand' film finds it hard to be objective.
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- The Boston Herald
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- April 3, 1998
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"Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life."
Not rated.
At the Kendall Square Cinema.
2 stars
In Michael Paxton's Academy Award-nominated documentary "Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life," the high priestess of the philosophical theory known as objectivism is deified.
Far less engaging than such unnominated films as "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control," "Ayn Rand" is a paean to the writer ("We the Living"), philosopher and scenarist who became a protege of Cecil B. DeMille in Hollywood (she worked as an extra in DeMille's "King of Kings"), subsequently gave us such best-selling novels as "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged," and was an outspoken ...