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...malls and movies were the two means of exercise," says Smith. Her four oldersiblings guided her intellectual development fromthe start. One of her sisters moved back home whenSmith was entering adolescence; she took Smith toSan Francisco just at the age she needed to breakout of suburbia. "When my brother Conrad left forcollege," Smith says, "he left me Death inVenice to read. I was in the third grade...
Little Buddha hopscotches the world from the kingdom of Bhutan to Seattle, Washington, and leapfrogs millenniums from the Buddha's birth in 2500 B.C. to today. In Bhutan a Tibetan monk named Lama Norbu (Ying Ruocheng) hears that an American boy, Jesse Conrad (Alex Wiesendanger), may be the reincarnation of an important lama. Incredulous at first, Jesse's parents (Chris Isaak and Bridget Fonda) are sufficiently impressed by Lama Norbu's otherworldly sweetness that they allow the boy to keep company with him, and eventually to journey to Bhutan with his father and two other candidates for the exalted position...
...here's what you get for your trouble. The movie is attacked as "snuff TV" by the national trade paper Advertising Age; NBC is lambasted for contributing to the problem of TV violence; the show is even denounced sight unseen by a U.S. Senator (Democrat Kent Conrad of North Dakota). It's enough to drive a programmer back to Saved by the Bell: The College Years...
...Black Students Association invited notorious bigot and anti-Semite Leonard Jeffries to speak on campus; the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations sponsored a campus speech by Conrad Muhammad, another notorious anti-Semite...
...opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written by a sprout, Steve Conrad, and directed by Randa Haines (Children of a Lesser God, The Doctor), who specializes in the woes of isolation, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway aspires to be serious about its subject. Yet in a curious way this sobriety works against it. Frank and Walt turn into schematically contrasting case studies...