Word: adults
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...troubled girl redeemed by Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer. All three girls kept acting through their teen years (Portman tucked a Harvard degree and a graduate stint at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem into her work schedule) and have successfully made the transition to adult stars...
...actor. Every star is playing a role, and every actor reveals bits of himself or herself. But so many child stars, including some of the brilliant ones - Mickey Rooney, Margaret O'Brien, Billy Gray, Patty Duke, Tatum O'Neal - either found it difficult to sustain their appeal as adult actors or relied too long on the tricks they'd picked up as kids...
...Ricci is not asked to do much but coast on her dark, elfin star quality, which she manages nicely. In other adult roles, like the ones in Prozac Nation and Monster, she's worked hard to shrug off the ethereal girlishness of her Mermaids and Addams Family days. As for Johansson, the suspicion lingers that there was always a voluptuous woman waiting to burst out of her pre-teen roles. The few extra pounds she carries, in an era when curves are denounced as baby fat, give her the anachronistic, grown-up glamour of a Rita Hayworth. She photographs...
...songs, the nonstop snazz and of course the bawdry - or, as she puts it, "hits, glitz and tremendous tits." Innuendo goes out the window when Miss M. comes to town. The clerk at the ticket desk offers the friendly warning that this is "adult entertainment," and inside you'll hear Midler caution the crowd, "Please don't call the Pope if you see a tit or two." You won't have to phone Rome; skinwise, the show is pretty chaste. Bette relies on one of her longtime characters - Soph (for Sophie Tucker), the oldest babe in show business - to supply...
...year-olds notoriously free from outside influence. The media culture of violence coupled with the accessibility of guns in this country never ceases to spell disaster for frustrated teens who can think of no peaceful recourse to their problems. Thus, trying a 14-year-old as an adult when a 14-year-old does not have the capacity to make adult judgments is nothing short of absurd. Hate crimes in particular require a certain level of conviction and premeditation unique to adults. A statutory age should be considered in the charging of hate crimes. There is no explanation...