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...Much ado has been made by the media about society's desensitization to violence in recent years. Try the experience of going to a movie that supposedly decries violence, such as Menace II Society or Natural Born Killers during which the audience, rather than being shocked or angered by the scenes of random violence and murder, instead breaks into applause and laughter. A friend of mine told me that she even experienced this when she saw Schindler's List...

Author: By Charles C. Savage, | Title: A Society Unraveling in Film | 2/11/1995 | See Source »

...saying, `Before you started talking, I thought this guy was guilty. Now I'm wondering.' Today I went to my barbershop. I walk in, and I get a standing ovation.'' As for the prosecution's cries of foul, Cochran and Douglas are, naturally, having none of it. ``Much ado about nothing,'' insists Douglas, who toils in an adjoining office. Says Cochran: ``You just take the slings and arrows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE O.J. SIMPSON TRIAL: DID HE OR DIDN'T HE? | 2/6/1995 | See Source »

...Dangerous Liaisons?" Ted in a doublet. "Point Break?" Ted on a surfboard. "Much Ado About Nothing?' Ted tries blank verse. "Dracula?" Ted and vampires...

Author: By M. BARBARA Gammill, | Title: You'll Never Ride the Crosstown Bus Again Without Keanu | 7/15/1994 | See Source »

Well like it or not, no. Without further ado, I bring the second installment of the Major League Baseball Recap. Games are through Saturday, except for yesterday's Mariners- Orioles game, which I will explain later...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: This Week in Baseball | 4/26/1994 | See Source »

...landscape of the Chianti region of Tuscany, as painted by the local governor, Leonato (Richard Briers). Then the camera pans to the real thing: a paradise of green and brown hills -- life outshining art -- on which his handsome family idles. The rest of this film of Much Ado About Nothing has the same seductive impact as the first shot does. It brings sunny vitality to an old canvas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smiles of A Summer Night | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

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