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Michael B. McElroy is the Butler Professor of Environmental Studies and Director of the Center for the Environment at Harvard University...
...video’s the topic I’m supposed to address. Well, the video’s a bit disappointing. It’s overly literal, for one thing (watch as children open their eyes right when lead singer Win Butler commands the listener to “lift those heavy eyelids”). And it sort of plays up the “cheer up, because life is beautiful and children are our future!” aspect of the song to an overly sentimental degree. But the decisions to put the whole thing in the soft...
...called upon viewers to write to their Congressmen to protest the sex and violence in Hollywood films. Studio executives are now speculating about the entrepreneur's designs on MGM productions. Joked an MGM/UA executive last week: "Does Turner want to make movies? He did his Rhett Butler imitation when he was in here Monday." Turner, whose favorite movie is Gone With the Wind, named his son Rhett, 19, for the Clark Gable character in that film...
...Wimbledon tennis championship in West Germany's first Davis Cup victory over the U.S. (the best American, John McEnroe, avoided Hamburg). But of all the sunny events piled up against the bleakness of arbitration clauses and pension proposals, the singular one was actually contested in a rainstorm at the Butler National Golf Club near Chicago, ultimately for no money at all. Scott Verplank, 21, a student at Oklahoma State, became the first amateur in 31 years, since Gene Littler, to win a P.G.A. Tour event...
...prose, begging to be turned back into words. (Movies get "novelized" sometimes, of course, but novelization is merely a spin-off, like a doll or a T shirt.) Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind sold a million copies in its first seven months. After the movie appeared, Rhett Butler was irreversibly Clark Gable. Scarlett O'Hara was Vivien Leigh. Mitchell's prose withered to the irrelevance of an architect's blueprint after the house is built. Dashiell Hammett created Sam Spade. Humphrey Bogart became Sam Spade. The idea of a character becomes imprisoned in the body of the incarnator...