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...remember a serious work that has been more faithfully or more entrancingly turned into a movie. Partly this is because the screenwriter, Richard Friedenberg, has gently expanded the original work, using family history gathered from the writer (who died in 1990) and his children. He has added some colorful boyhood anecdotes and, most important, has developed the boys' relationship with their father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship of his wife, Jessie (Emily Lloyd), more fully than they are in the book. Partly it is because director Robert Redford has rigorously maintained the understated...
...Houston to declare what he called "a cultural war" (nothing like a war to obscure the economic issue) and try to help tear off a fat half of America for George Bush. A '50s kind of week in several ways: Buchanan eerily reproduced the punitive, menacing quality of his boyhood hero, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin. The role of threat to the American essence used to be played by communism. But moral squalor at home would do as well. Buchanan pounded at "the agenda that Clinton & Clinton ((meaning Bill and Hillary)) would impose on America -- abortion on demand...
...Brock sees his dreams of quitting become more unrealistic, he turns to his boyhood pal Mel, who is now a musicbusiness mogul with a gift for packaging anyone as a superstar. Mel comes up with the insanely effective idea of turning Brock into a star so that his books will sell...
...growing up and facing down the everyday demons of adult life. Unlike the bizarre Ken Russell film, the narrative reshaped for La Jolla by McAnuff and composer- lyricist Pete Townshend has an essential innocence, maybe even an excess of optimism. The title character, apparently deaf and blind from boyhood, is in fact rendered autistic by seeing his father shoot his mother's lover -- an infidelity made less sordid by the fact that the father, a World War II airman, had been reported dead. Over the years the boy is sexually molested by an uncle, battered by a cousin, tossed like...
...trivial matter? Not to Perot. For six months he bombarded Mason and his editor, Jeffrey Krames, with letters and phone calls from himself, his sister Bette and boyhood acquaintances who insisted Perot did so ride a horse. He even sent Krames a poster-size map of Texarkana, with his route outlined block by block, and pretyped letters of retraction, needing only a signature. He never...