Ripped-Off Mozart
July, 1985
They're taking away our role models. In movies, books and television shows, men are being trivialized, and the message is this: You guys are mostly dumb, frivolous, awkward and mouselike---and if you don't agree with that, you're sexist.You've seen Amadeus, right? That's the film about the gifted but infantile composer who giggled like an idiot and then died of indigestion. Great vision of Mozart? The way you always thought of him? Peter Shaffer called his screenplay for Amadeus "a fantasia...
