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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...another dysfunctional-family Thanksgiving drama, this time with a little incest and crises of identity thrown in. Josh Hamilton plays a troubled fellow who brings home his supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is the successful mix of the familiar and the disturbing in the composition of the characters. --Kamil...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevitas | 10/31/1997 | See Source »

...thing I feared most I had to confront," he says. "I started to realize that gay and lesbian people are just like everyone else...

Author: By Ariel R. Frank, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Ex-Gay' Movement Draws Criticism, Mixed Support on Harvard Campus | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...didn't; among the New Yorkers there was an increase not in the amount of sex but only in the safety of it. Come November, she will field a team to make 27 Georgia clinics "teen friendly." "You need to have young staff, be open evenings and not confront girls with a pelvic before they're comfortable," she says. "When we reduce teen pregnancy by 25%, the rest of the country will want to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BACK IN THE SADDLE | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...delivery of her own piece is remarkable. The viewer quite literally gets chills watching Smith's fury overtake her face during the most powerful part of the poem, when the undertaker fights off an urge to "take [the mother] down / to the chilly room, open the bag" and confront her with the remains of her son, so she can grasp the reality of his death, "wither finally, and move...

Author: By Erika L. Guckenberger, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Meshing Text and Performance | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

...another dysfunctional-family Thanksgiving drama, this time with a little incest and crises of identity thrown in. Josh Hamilton plays a troubled fellow who brings home his supremely normal fiancee (Tori Spelling, who's surprisingly good in this sugar-cookie role) only to confront the ghost of his past in his sister, "Jackie O" (a delightfully demented Parker Posey), who sports an obsession with the JFK assassination among her myriad kooky charms. What makes this setup more than just a gimmicky grab-bag for originality is its success in mixing the familiar and the disturbing in the composition...

Author: By Kamil E. Redmond, | Title: The House of Yes | 10/24/1997 | See Source »

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