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What's even sadder is the talent wasted. Director Tom Shadyac's other films (Ace Ventura: Pet Detective; The Nutty Professor; Liar Liar) are bright, off-kilter farces; scripter Steve Oedekerk wrote Professor. It is a crime against humority that they and Williams (who in a chair next to Letterman is still our most brilliant word surrealist) renounce the work they've practiced with such abandon and invention for Patch's bullying sentimentality. Comics who want to do Hamlet often end up, as here, serving big, sticky slices...
...have an ace in its collective pocket--one Allison Feaster '98, who is only the greatest women's basketball player in Ivy history. Maybe if Feaster were still around, Harvard would be 5-2. Then again, maybe not. She would probably in UHS with whooping cough...
...supply-demand imbalance is testimony to the dire need ACE was created to meet. Its volunteer force of 110 must cope with an age 85-plus population that at last count totaled 18,541--a 92% surge since 1990. It is also testimony to the vision of ACE's founder, Leonard M. Friedman, 84, a former attorney and a retired associate justice of the California court of appeal...
...join a panel charged with investigating services to the aged. Within a year, Friedman and others on the panel had created a model system of programs to replace the one that had failed the hapless women. But in 1992, budget cutbacks forced its cancellation. Friedman quickly countered by launching ACE, a consortium of six agencies that agreed collaboratively to close the gap in services the county would no longer provide. Trained by the agencies they work for, volunteers perform many tasks--from phoning shut-ins to assisting in the mediation of disputes or investigating allegations of abuse in board...
Though too few in number ("The agencies tell us they could easily make use of 300," says Friedman.), ACE volunteers enjoy a reputation for being well screened and well prepped before they are placed. Public confidence is likely to grow even more now that five-year-old ACE has procured its first grant. Last month, with $23,879 from a local foundation, ACE began offering its recruits 15 hours of professional training in how to identify physical and mental-health problems in the population they serve...