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Article: VOICE Mail
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- The Village Voice
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- August 26, 2009
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The Tarantino furor
Re J. Hoberman's review of Inglourious Basteras ['Quentin's Final Solution!' August 19-25]: Like every other moviegoer, J. Hoberman is entitled to his enthusiasms, but I am puzzled when he says about Hitler that "the evil genius of the 20th century is already a joke everywhere." Is that true? One swallow does not make a summer, nor one Mel Brooks film/play a historical reality. If it is true, then we are indeed living in surrealistically dangerous times.
I wonder how many persons are laughing at the neo-Nazi/neo-fascist/skinhead cults that are not disappearing from our landscapes. Indeed, there is a publishing house in Virginia whose mission is to keep Mein Kampf in ...