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Who Isn't John Galt?
27 August 2009 3:35 PM, PDT
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Watching the recent attention given to Ayn Rand and her Objectivist philosophy has been bittersweet. I must admit that I was shocked years back finding out that Dick Cheney loved her books, because what he represents is the polar opposite of what I thought the books were really about. You see, I'm not a raging greed-fueled Capitalist, I'm an Artist. Not that I don't want to make a good living doing what I do, but I was affected in a radically different way by Rand's writings and philosophy and feel strongly that The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged were by far the two most important books I've ever read. Their impact on my own beliefs still resonates today in every aspect of my life, which is why I've found myself rather horrified by the vitriol spewed towards Rand in the general
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- Robbie Gennet
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The Insanity of Ayn Rand: The Fountain-Brain-Dead.
4 June 2009 3:09 AM, PDT
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Yikes, darlings!
I watch a lot of old movies on TCM, mostly because TCM are my initials. (I'm Tallulah Clytemnestra Morehead) and I just finished watching a doozy of a terrible movie on TCM, one that has to be seen to be disbelieved: the ultra-hilarious piece of right-wing objectivist claptrap, the movie of Ayn Rand's ridiculous novel, The Fountainhead, starring Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal, as glamorous, sexy Fascists, I mean an architect and his best gal.
I'm afraid Juliette's blowing up the H-Bomb on that island on Lost must have screwed up the Time-Space Continuum. This can't be Normal Reality, because this movie is the most absurd piece of twaddle I have sat through since the final season of Roseanne.
Enormously well-hung Gary Cooper plays Howard Roarke, the most brilliant, unpopular, and egotistical architect in the world. The movie is all
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- Tallulah Morehead
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Jodie Foster gives voice to Maggie Simpson
11 May 2009 9:00 AM, PDT
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Some imaginary animated characters have all the luck. In last night’s episode of The Simpsons, pacifier-loving, speaking-adverse baby Maggie found her voice. And that voice was Jodie Foster (who also happens to be AfterEllen.com Hot 100 hottie No. 39). See what I was saying about lucky?
The two-time Oscar winner voiced Maggie in fantasy sequence imagining the tiny tot as a budding female Howard Roark from Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead. Little Maggie as a rugged individualist? As Lisa worries: “Mom, isn’t that book the bible of right-wing losers?”
But, really, who cares what she’s espousing; she sounds like Jodie Foster. And in her grown-up incarnation she also looks a lot like Jodie, too, circa The Accused.
In the episode “Four Great Women and a Manicure,” Lisa and her mother Marge trade stories while debating whether women can be “smart, powerful and beautiful” all at the same time.
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- dorothy snarker
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