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...This breakdown is clear in the reasons New World executives gave for jumping over to Fox: it was the network's limited schedule -- the fact that Fox is only a part-time network -- that made it attractive. Fox offers just 15 hours of prime-time shows a week (in contrast to 22 for the Big Three); it has no morning programming, no afternoon soap operas and no evening newscast. Today many stations see this not as a drawback but as an opportunity to program more of their schedule themselves, both with locally produced shows and with syndicated fare. These shows...
...what made Quayle's speech newsworthy at the time was his attempt to blame Hollywood (and, elsewhere, "the turbulent legacy of the '60s and '70s") for the breakdown of family life in the ghettos. That's why the Murphy Brown passage -- criticizing the fictional TV reporter for having a baby out of wedlock -- got so much attention, as Quayle knew it would. Speaking in San Francisco shortly after the L.A. riots, Quayle was attempting to deflect any blame away from the Reagan-Bush Administration that had been in putative charge of the country for 11 years. But more than that...
...mentally ill," says William H. Mann, the former police chief in Medfield, Mass. "We took him to a mental institution (Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, Mass.)--when he had his first breakdown, he acted up here." Mann says Fenton was moved with the consent of his father and his brother...
...summary: according to McNamara's book, breakdown, Lozano entered Harvard Medical School in 1984 and soon entered therapy with Dr. Margaret Bean-Bayog, a psychiatrist and teacher at the school. She pursued a strange course of regression theraphy, making Lozano believe that she was his mother and implanting false memories of childhood abuse. It is almost certain that she had an affair with him or at least masturbated in his presence, but she abandoned him when she successfully adopted a child, leaving him helpless and depressed. He killed himself nine months later...
...Oscar for Best Foreign Film is a painful and disappointing experience. Instead of rewarding excellent or innovative films, the stolid voters usually opt for something ponderous and portentous--recall the year that the excruciatingly tedious "Pelle the Conqueror' won over "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown." So it was refreshing to watch this year's Oscar go to the Spanish entry, Fernando Trueba's "Belle Epoque." Trueba's film isn't necessarily a cinematic masterpiece, something like "The Piano." But given Trueba's more modest goal of entertainment, the film succeeds quite well...