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...altogether different fat chick," says Roseanne, comparing herself with Rosie O'Donnell. She's right. Her new talk show has none of the comfy good cheer of Rosie's; it's cruder, more sensational and also more serious. Mostly the debut was banal, if often profane, as Whoopi Goldberg pontificated about Monica Lewinsky and Roseanne interviewed a tiresome Linda Tripp impersonator. But Roseanne and Goldberg's conversation with three teenage mothers was surprisingly simple and affecting. Roseanne's emotions are not polished to an Oprah-like smoothness, and she can be appealingly authentic, in her rare quieter moments...
...probably lying. What was truly moving was not his speech or even his voice, but the physical moment of his arrival on the dais. We were asked to rise, and suddenly, we heard the sounds of African drums reverberating through the Yard. As we caught sight of him, a cheer swept across the crowd like a rush of wind, as if we were standing at the coronation of an ancient king...
...will have met us, whose lives we will have touched, for whom our own lives have been either a blessing or a curse. They may never meet one another, but they are our legacy; it is they who will beat their way in to protest against us or to cheer for us or to award us their honorary degrees. Because they remind us of this fact, we are privileged to have famous people join us on campus. And to catch a glimpse of what someone's legacy might look like, the upper left side of a famous person's face...
...Ukrainian groundhog and the Azerbaijani chipmunk or whatever those currencies are called. Now that the cold war is over, we not only have all of our worries, we also have all of what used to be their worries. Their drought is now our drought, and no longer something to cheer about...
...Hurt, that most self-regarding of actors), and her daughter Ellen, forced to give up an all consuming career to nurse her mother (Renee Zellweger, in a wonderfully clenched performance). This reconciliation Streep encourages in the subtlest of ways. There's no apology for Kate's lifetime of good cheer and common sense, just an opening up of those modest qualities, so that her family and we are gently, unsentimentally embraced and enlightened by their grace and bravery...