Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sylvestre Gasigwa, 14, lost both parents and three brothers in last week's rush. Tears run down his face as he clutches a bloody wound on the crown of his head, where another child had struck him with a rock in a fight over food. "The food is not enough," he says. "I want to go home." And still there is no safety. Early last week relief workers spotted a Hutu soldier going from tent to tent with a grenade in his hand, looking for Tutsi children to kill...
That must be what attracted Finerman, whose eight-year crusade to make this movie is already a Hollywood legend. In retrospect, though, Forrest Gump seems a can't-miss proposition. Consider that the only three movies of the past two decades to win both the year's box-office crown and the Oscar for Best Picture -- Rocky, Kramer vs. Kramer and Rain Man -- were canny, poignant fables of men in domestic crisis. Throw in two other high-grossing Oscar winners, Platoon and Terms of Endearment, and you have the recipe for a "mature," feel-good smash. Let's see: retarded...
...documentary profiling the heir to the English throne, "Charles: the Private Man, the Public Role," reportedly contains an admission by the crown prince that he committed adultery during his 11 year marriage to Princess Diana. During an interview for the program, Charles was asked if he had been faithful to his wife. His response: "Yes," then adds after pausing, "Until it became clear that my marriage had irretrievably broken down." The infidelity itself comes as no real surprise, as gossip has often linked the future king with friend Camilla Parker Bowles, but apparent royal confirmation has sent British tabloids into...
...residue. Though Potter gave ecclesiastics the willies with his God play (Son of Man) and his Devil play (Brimstone and Treacle), he could still recite, as meaningfully as if it were a pop standard, the words to an old hymn: "Will there be any stars, any stars in my crown?" Socialist, yes, decrying British mercantilism that turns everyone "from a citizen into a consumer. And politics is a commodity." Apocalyptic disgust? Plenty, even at the end. He told Bragg he had named his cancer Rupert, for Murdoch, the media warlord...
...celebrate, so much to mourn. In his last days, Dennis Potter did both. Triumphantly, he finished his two plays -- two final blossoms soaked in acid. And he nursed his wife until she died. A week later, disconsolate, Potter followed her, with blood in his eyes and stars in his crown...