"Nobody gives a shit what anti-war or pro-war writers think. Really. So shut up. That goes double for poets. Shut the hell up, poets. Everybody just shut up." First Rall, then Hitchens, now Neal Pollack lets loose on pre-war hand-wringing in The Stranger. "Do you really want to hear what any writer thinks about our upcoming war with Iraq? I don't," Pollack says toward the beginning of his 2,500-word piece. Of all the writing spewed forth after Sept. 11, Pollack finds only two pieces that will stand the test of time: the Onion's first issue after the attack and William Langewiesche's book on unbuilding the World Trade Center.
"Song of the South" is one of Disney's most celebrated films. It's also one of Disney's most controversial. The film’s detractors say it presents an idealized vision of the Old South, a world where blacks joyfully work in the fields, spurred on to work not by the threat of the lash, but by the cheerful songs in their hearts. In the face of criticism, Disney refuses to release the film on video or re-release it at theaters. MetroBEAT's Chris Haire examines the controversy and how Disney got the story of Brer Rabbit all wrong.
