Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life . Newcity Chicago . 03-23-98

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

DIRECTED BY: Michael Paxton

REVIEWED: 03-23-98

Hagiography in the truest sense of the word: a biography of the writer-polemicist Ayn Rand that venerates her as a kind of saint with the sort of idolatry that omits any dissenting voices, despite the great controversy that she sought all her long life. As portrayed in Michael Paxton's Oscar-nominated documentary, ""Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life," her mantra of "individualism" speaks to a single individual, which she could well have described as "me-me-me-me." Paxton piles up information about her philosophy of "objectivism" but also attempts to gain validity through citing the most unlikely sources, such as a Book-of-the-Month Club poll that apparently asserted that "Atlas Shrugged" was the second most important book to Americans, after the Bible. For those predisposed to Rand worship only. The ripely-written narration is by Sharon Gless. 145m.

--Frank Sennett

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