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...ways that are hard to measure." But then there is Marla Olmstead, a four-year-old artist whom Quart visited, whose dozens of brightly colored abstract oil paintings have brought in $300,000, as well as calls from Oprah and David Letterman. Some prodigies make successful transitions to adult accomplishment, but others flounder as they get older. Gifted children, an intellectual step down from prodigyhood, tend to be identified with high IQ scores. (Quart is quick to say that she herself was not a prodigy...
...Occasionally, a film goes into the marketplace unrated and finds a welcoming adult audience. Y tu mama tambien earned $13.8 million at the North American box office, along with lots of critics' awards, and $19.8 million abroad. That cume, $33.6 million, is pretty good for a sexy little art film with a budget (according to the Internet Movie Database) of about $5 million. But it's less than, say, Saw II, the horror-film sequel that cost only $4 million to make, earned in just its first weekend in the U.S., Canada and Britain...
...years ago, when the Federal Trade Commission accused movie studios of peddling adult entertainment to kids, I wrote something for TIME.com that, I think, applies today to the MPAA debate...
...Once upon a time, in the late '60s and early '70s, there was something that deserved the term adult entertainment. It delved responsibly into mature themes for a wide, grown-up audience. Midnight Cowboy, which won the Oscar as best picture of 1969, was rated X; if you weren't at least 18, you couldn't see it. Same with such excellent films as Medium Cool and The Devils. I don't remember mass complaints that kids couldn't see these films. The idea then was that some things - intelligent films and, for that matter, the profits that came from...
...terrorism won't be won within the next decade. In fact, 73% believe that another attack on U.S. soil is at least "somewhat likely" over the next 12 months. Those are some of the conclusions of a TIME/Discovery Channel poll that sampled attitudes from 1,000 adult Americans from August...