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...painful sincerity unites those who have dredged up memories of UFO abductions. Many suffer from insomnia and shy away from telling anyone what they believe may have happened for fear of being perceived as crazy. "Virtually all abductees are opposed to the idea that these things really happen," explains Budd Hopkins, author of two books about contact with aliens. "They don't want these things to be real. There is no pleasure in this experience...
...directors participated in the workshop; from the U.S.: Budd Boetticher, Robert Gardner, Fuller, Ross McElwee, and Alexandre Rockwell. From France: Jean-Charles Tacchella, and Val*rie Stroh. The panelists were selected to represent both young, independent filmmakers, and more established directors from the two countries...
...darkness and hopelessness and self-annihilation. Devastated by the silence that greeted his heartfelt novels, he retired into a public silence from which he did not emerge for more than 30 years. Then, just before his death, he came forth with his final utterance -- the luminous tale of Billy Budd -- and showed that silence is only as worthy as what we can bring back from...
...nightclub circuit, where 20% of the comics are female, up from perhaps 2% a decade ago. Even that minuscule group used to give itself the short end of the shtick: "When I was born I was so ugly, the doctor slapped my mother." In comedy's Paleolithic era, notes Budd Friedman, impresario of Los Angeles' Improv comedy club, "stand-up was traditionally a white male enclave. But today there are no restrictions. Women are able to use their intelligence and their femininity and their strength to say what they want...
...There's an international business angle to [this donation]," Haskell said. "The check will have the Budd Company's name...