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Ironically, as much as TV has been blamed for driving families apart, classic TV is becoming something, like books or records, that parents can hand down to their kids. For moms and dads tired of vetting the Jackasses and Limp Bizkits of the world, reruns are a haven in the big scary media environment. For kids, they are another manifestation of today's palimpsest pop culture, in which everything is ripe for sampling and nothing stays dead. They have seen the movies morph Charlie's Angels from jiggle joint to empowerment parable; now they can see the reruns, back...
...each have half. The first woman says, "Fine, thanks," and the second bursts into tears and pleads with the king to give the baby to her rival. Solomon, of course, hands the baby to the second woman, knowing that she was the true birth mother. It?s a classic example of Solomon?s proverbial wisdom...
...Gary Condit had nothing to do with Chandra Levy's disappearance, he may have become a classic example of the old adage about the cover-up being worse than whatever he might have done. "You advise your clients not to have any discussions concerning a case with anyone else," said one veteran Washington defense lawyer. "But people do it routinely. Even for smart, sophisticated people, the instinct is to tell others 'No, don't tell (the investigators)'" what happened...
...satisfy the tabloids, Roberts won't stoop to getting arrested in connection with hard drugs or a hot car. No, she indulges in serial trysts, but blithely, like a madcap heiress that Carole Lombard might have played 60 years ago. And America loves her for it. That's classic, full-service star quality, folks. The Best...
...Pinter from having the commercial big-screen hits enjoyed by other playwrights, such as David Mamet (The Untouchables) and Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liaisons). Pinter's 22-strong movie output, however, is critically distinguished - particularly a three-film collaboration with director Joseph Losey (including the creepy Dirk Bogarde-James Fox classic The Servant), and his John Fowles adaptation, The French Lieutenant's Woman...