Word: excepts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same illogic; the viewer is constantly tempted to borrow a page from Pierre's book and shots "So what--" at the pointless unless on stage. A glaring example is the treatment of Pierre himself (Rick Reynolds), beloved in book form as the kid who never said anything to anybody except "I don't care" and eventually I don't cared himself into getting gobbled up by a lion. This version, by casting a body-suited women (Linda Hammott) as the doggerel in just the right suggestive murmur, manages to transform this grisly little sage into a sex fable--a counterintuitive...
James Meredith, the first black to attend the University of Mississippi, says he's a prophet and is going to guide his followers into self-sufficiency and an understanding of the value of work. His church, he says, will be structured "like the Catholic Church, except it wouldn't have a professional clergy; in that respect it would be more like the Mormons...
...yells Director Apted, a tall fellow in Moon Boots and an Everest anorak. Casting Pacula as the lead was a wild risk, Apted admits, and not simply because of her English, which she has now brought to the level of lightly accented near fluency. The fact is that except for the screen test, nobody in the West had ever seen a frame of film she had made. Says Apted: "I loved the look of her, the demeanor, that's what I cast...
...stage, but theater simply did not exist in her provincial town. When she took a bus to Warsaw at the age of 17, having had no training whatsoever and, amid a crowd of 400 applicants, qualified for one of 20 places at the theatrical academy, no one except her mother believed it. One of her audition pieces, she says, and here she giggles at the thought of her innocent 17-year-old self, was part of Molly Bloom's erotic soliloquy from Ulysses...
...that the dioxin contained in Agent Orange caused cancer and other ailments among the soldiers and genetic defects in their children. Dow has resolutely denied the charges. In a television interview, Dow President Paul F. Oreffice said, "There is absolutely no evidence of dioxin doing any damage to humans, except something called chloracne. It's a rash...