Word: dosed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Spielbergs of tomorrow, Rosenberg recommends a heavy dose of self-confidence, determination and persistence, since, as he sees it, rejection is just part of the culture of Hollywood...
...evening newscast has faced similar--if less momentous--choices night after night for the past several months, and has come down, more often than not, on the opposite side: bypassing or downplaying traditional Washington stories in favor of news, trends and features from the heartland--plus a liberal dose of O.J. The strategy has worked: the NBC Nightly News has been No. 1 in the ratings for six straight weeks (with one tie), inching ahead of the longtime leader, ABC's World News Tonight...
...grim window into the revised norms of a plague community. A group led by clinical psychologist Lee Slome reports that in a survey of 118 San Francisco-area physicians working with AIDS patients, 53% indicated (via an anonymous, self-administered questionnaire) that they had knowingly prescribed a deadly dose of narcotics to patients who wanted to die. Most of the doctors who provided such aid, says Slome, did so from one to three times. One doctor admitted to 100 instances, a tally far outstripping that of Dr. Jack Kevorkian. (Kevorkian, of course, practices a more activist suicide assistance...
...less talented hands this could have become a heavy-handed tract, but Mosley never stoops to propaganda. And while his characters often verge on the bizarre, they are leavened by a reaffirming dose of humanity: Domaque, the hunchback with a thirst for reading; Miss Dixon, a half-crazed white spinster whose whims determine the fate of black families unlucky enough to live on her land; Momma Jo, the hoodoo priestess who forces herself on Easy in a hilarious seduction scene. But overshadowing them all is the enigmatic Mouse, who combines terrifying bloodthirstiness with naive romanticism; he murders his stepfather...
...Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...