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...strike. The film ! is being directed by choreographer Kenny Ortega, a music-video veteran. Disney moguls believe the MTV generation will readily take to long-form musicals, which don't require Schwarzenegger-size budgets. The studio is getting two other musicals ready for release: the animated Beauty and the Beast and Straight Talk, starring Dolly Parton...
They are called "canned hunts," but by any name they are slaughter, not sport, with no vestige of a fair contest between man and beast. In pursuit of a trophy to hang on the wall or a videotape of their exploits, well-to-do hunters in the U.S. are paying thousands of dollars to shoot defenseless exotic animals at point-blank range. There is no accurate count of the number of such killings, but authorities are finally beginning to crack down on them...
...time, he was not overly occupied with academics. His first-year curriculum resembles a Confidential Guide list of Harvard guts, including such offerings as "Beast Literature," "The Psychology of Law," and "Jesus and the Moral Life...
Remember the network mini-series? It used to roam the TV plains: a big, lumbering beast that would show up two or three times a year, sprawl across nights and nights of prime time and attract (at least sometimes) hordes of viewers. Mounting costs and sagging ratings have pretty much forced the networks to abandon these extravaganzas. Instead, we get tidy two-parters, most of them either tacky soap operas (Danielle Steel's Kaleidoscope and Fine Things) or sensationalistic true-life crime stories (Love, Lies and Murder...
Still, killing 100,000 people is a serious thing to do. It is not equivalent to shooting a rabid dog, which is, down deep, what Americans feel the war was all about, exterminating a beast with rabies. All those 100,000 men were not megalomaniacs, torturers and murderers. They did not all commit atrocities in Kuwait. They were ordinary people: peasants, truck drivers, students and so on. They had the love of their families, the dignity of their lives and work. They cared as little for politics, or less, than most people in the world. They were, precisely, not Saddam...