Word: decentering
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...other well-meaning movies about race, Ghosts of Mississippi is not really about the black civil rights struggle. It's about the white liberal's burden--the crusade, waged by some stalwart fellow with star quality, to purge his community of official racism and to help all those decent people of color in the supporting cast. And of course the black actors don't get to play anything so interesting as a villain. Goldberg has to fashion Myrlie into a plaster saint, smothered by reverence, while Woods, snorting some invisible snuff, can have fun and lock up an Oscar nomination...
...later she appeared on Late Night with David Letterman, unleashed a flurry of four-letter words and spent the next few months trying to repair the damage. Meanwhile, her bumpy movie career--which has wavered between big roles in bad films (Shanghai Surprise) and smaller parts in an occasional decent one (A League of Their Own)--got even bumpier. In 1993 she starred in Body of Evidence, a steamy courtroom drama that bombed with critics and audiences. She complains that the script was changed so that her character, a sex-obsessed vixen on trial for murder, was killed...
...Profit (Fox) A heinous antihero (named Jim Profit), who made J.R. Ewing look like Bob Saget. A corporate empire shrouded in mystery. A wry subtext that attacked the evils of techno-culture. Profit had it all--except a decent-size audience. This mesmerizingly original corporate thriller was canceled after just a few outings, and yet we will never forget the chill of star Adrian Pasdar's insidious whisper...
Huizenga wants to institutionalize the no-haggle car purchase, spruce up car lots, give unhappy buyers full refunds, offer used-car buyers decent warranties and generally make the car-buying experience easier to stomach. These are not new ideas, but Huizenga plans to carry them out on a scale that would literally transform every aspect of car retailing. This is a glimpse of Wayne's Auto World, where the same formula that has revolutionized video and trash will be put to work on wheels...
...gripe today is with--surprise, surprise--University Health Services. Now, let me preface these remarks by saying that my experience with UHS has generally been good. I like my primary care physician a lot, and I usually receive decent treatment from other aspects of the organization. But last week, suffering from a cold so bad I could barely think straight, I walked through the doors of the after-hours urgent-care unit and into a bureaucratic nightmare funnier and more disturbing than any Saturday Night Live sketch I have seen in the past year...