Word: benning
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Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
...Rabbi [Ben-Zion] Gold was always interested in moving and I never could understand that," Rosovsky says...
...acceptance speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also shows a debt to the Bard in its exploration of adultery and family upheaval...
American media saturates the Spanish airwaves. During siesta time, I would watch Mr. T beat the bad guys on "The A-Team" and relive "Growing Pains" with Mike, Ben and Carol Seaver. In fact, the people of Spain have elevated cheesy American sitcoms and made-for-TV movies to the rarefied status of telenovelas. And the more crime and sex, the better: These decade-old American exports are invariably about a wife driven to infidelity by her husband's extramarital affairs; she takes a teenage lover, convinces him to murder her husband and, of course, mayhem results...
...Ben Yehuda attack did succeed in making what little progress the American Secretary had hoped to achieve this week even more difficult. "Poor Madeleine is going out there, expected to put Humpty Dumpty back together again," admitted one of her aides, "but it's an almost impossible mission." This was already a major test of Albright's blunt and brassy diplomacy. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat are now so mutually distrustful, so hamstrung by extremist political constituents, that they cannot bear to talk to each other, much less negotiate in good faith. In a situation...