Word: falling
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...years old, and the studio will ask if they can be in their early 20s instead." The moguls also think of how the Amy Heckerling comedy Clueless transformed Jane Austen's Emma into a modern-teen hit, and they dip some literary favorite into the fountain of youthpix. The fall film Ten Things I Hate About You, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt of 3rd Rock from the Sun, is "The Taming of the Shrew in high school." Next year's Cruel Inventions, with Gellar and Dawson's Joshua Jackson, was pitched as "Dangerous Liaisons in high school." Then there's Strike...
...still more you can do to lower his risk of SIDS. Make sure the mattress is firm, so if your child rolls onto his stomach, his face won't settle into the bed. Remove all fluffy pillows and stuffed animals from the crib. And never let your baby fall asleep on a sheepskin--even on his back. A number of infants have died when the sheepskin or other soft bedding wound up covering their faces. Apparently, the material can cause just enough of a pocket to form around the baby's face that the air inside it is exhausted...
...staged Donizetti's popular Lucia di Lammermoor for New York City's Metropolitan Opera, and her vision of madness and death--the stage was strewn with coffins--drew catcalls from tuxedoed first-nighters expecting something considerably more romantic. In her version of Gluck's Iphigenie en Tauride, presented last fall by the New York City Opera, the two principal male characters were stripped down to skimpy loincloths and chained together, to underline what Zambello believes to be the opera's homosexual subtext. "Cesca is an artist with a strong mind and a point of view," says Paul Kellogg, the City...
HARCOURT BRACE would seem to have a major p.r. headache on its hands. The co-author of one of its lead fall titles, Africans in America: America's Journey through Slavery, is PATRICIA SMITH, the Boston Globe columnist who was asked to resign in June after she was found to have fabricated four columns. Harcourt executive editor Jane Isay says the firm still plans to publish the book, which was co-authored with novelist Charles Johnson and is the companion to a PBS series. "She is a wonderful writer. Her prose is riveting," says Isay, who nonetheless concedes that Harcourt...
...will avoid paying his ex-wife alimony by putting her in jail. Amusing, smoothly put together and featuring a likable cast, this summer series augurs well for Sonnenfeld's next (and very curious) TV project, a revamped Fantasy Island, which has won a place on ABC's fall schedule...