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...plot is predictable: Valentine travels to work for the Duke in Milan, leaving his friend Proteus, who is in love with Julia (Dawn Li), in Verona. In Milan, Valentine falls in love with the Duke's daughter Silvia (Joanna Weiss), who is engaged to the pompous Sir Thurio (Robert Ashley). Proteus is sent to Milan by his father, and he too becomes enamored of Silvia and manages to thwart Valentine's plan to marry...
...sixth-grader Michael Gaudiello wants is his independence. Using a wheelchair because of muscular dystrophy, he does not care to rely on others to open the doors, carry his books or help him get to the bathroom. Last spring freedom came in the form of a collie named Ashley, specially trained to help Michael through his day. When school officials in Delaware County, Pa., banned the dog from classes at his special school, Michael appealed to state officials. "It was my choice to fight for this," Gaudiello says. "I thought I was right and they were wrong...
...state department of education ruled that Michael should be "mainstreamed" into a school in his home district of Chichester. The new school promised to accept Ashley, install wheelchair ramps and assign attendants to help him use the bathroom twice a day. But all Michael wants is to take Ashley to his old school. His parents have challenged the dog ban as discriminatory against the disabled...
...service, with pretentious narration ("Where am I? I look around and it feels like a dream") and a predictable odd-couple relationship with the yuppie lawyer he works for (Laila Robins). CBS's Evening Shade, meanwhile, has recruited such veterans as Burt Reynolds, Hal Holbrook and Elizabeth Ashley to breathe some life into an overbaked Southern sitcom...
...bitch, 'Lose the bra -- or I'll cut ya.' Is that a wrong attitude?" The obvious answer is yes. Nearly everything he says is wildly heinous. Clay knows this, and so do his fans; their laughter is a release at hearing forbidden thoughts twisted into jokes. Says Leonard R.N. Ashley, an English professor at Brooklyn College: "Because the seven dirty words are in now common usage, there are different standards. The new pornography is violence, often sexual violence. And the new obscenity is race. For most people, it's O.K. to call someone a bastard but not a nigger...