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...euphoria started to fade. I began to wonder about schools that send out slick admission packages that cost $3 to mail. I was puzzled why my peers were so thunderstruck by the name of a school they knew little about. At the same time, of course, I felt like a fool even to question the worth of places like Harvard...
There's a catch, though. Hollywood, like the characters it puts on the screen, wants to be loved at the final fade-out. So Bonfire ends in a brotherhood-of-man speech instead of a race riot. The evil nurse in Misery doesn't chop her captive's foot off with an ax; she breaks it with a mallet. The heroine in Sleeping with the Enemy doesn't bravely confront her husband on her own terms; she cringes like a silent-film maiden tied to the railroad tracks. Plus ca change. Movies, even if they have literary beginnings, still need...
...Germans lived before the opening of the Berlin Wall. The title is deceptive because Borneman has no intention of describing life in the post-Wall Germany. But After the Wall accomplishes what Borneman wants: through extensive character studies, he captures the essence of a society that began to irreversibly fade after...
...Eilat" (1980). "The war of attrition against the Zionist enemy will never cease" (1983). "O heroic sons of Gaza Strip, O proud sons of the [West] Bank, O heroic sons of the Galilee, O steadfast sons of the Negev:...the fires of revolution against these Zionist invaders will not fade out...until our land--all our land--has been liberated from these usurping invaders...
...quick fade-out on that happy ending; women in movies have so few. What they and Hollywood need is to start at Reel 1 with a happy beginning. Meryl Streep can star. Carrie Fisher will write the script. And Jodie Foster, a child of the movies who has always known the direction she and her films should take, will shout, "Action!" And never mind...