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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with Fenton's score, Goldenthal found, was that it mirrored the tempo of the movie: slow, almost turgid. Like Elmer Bernstein, who enlivened the ponderous exodus of the Israelites in Cecil B. DeMille's The 10 Commandments with quick, sprightly march music, Goldenthal sought to spice up Jordan's dour vision of vampirism with a sprinkle of harpsichord here, a dash of rock there. "The performances were very slow and metered," he says. "Brad Pitt's delivery was whispery. What the music needed was horseplay, fire; I took any chance I had to get quick music in there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: RUNNING UP THE SCORES | 9/11/1995 | See Source »

...tome but ultimately no more compelling or fun. Margaret Mitchell's estate stipulated that a sequel to her 1936 novel not contain any explicit sex. The TV producers, spared this constraint, show Scarlett and Rhett disrobing each other frantically in a fisherman's hut. Moreover, the character of Lord Fenton (Sean Bean), with whom Scarlett has an affair, is given far more prominence than he enjoyed in the book. He is a secret rapist-murderer who beats Scarlett when she dismisses him. "I am not accustomed to sudden onsets of chastity!" he yells while groping and slapping...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Tomorrow Is Another Yawn | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...struggles to recover. Though sufferers appear withdrawn and disoriented, they are often painfully aware of themselves. "The person with schizophrenia has literally no emotional strength," explains Brandon Fitch, 21, a recovered patient who adds happily that medication has "liberated me from quite a few of my symptoms." Psychiatrist Wayne Fenton, who treated Murray Frances, laments that people who see a schizophrenic behaving strangely often assume that the patient "is someone who doesn't have feelings, who doesn't have a memory, who doesn't experience pain." Pioneering researcher Dr. John Kane points out that new drugs have helped patients whose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Souls That Drugs Saved | 10/10/1994 | See Source »

Homeless since December, when a judge issued a restraining order barring him form his Roslindale residence, Fenton has, since 1956, had a colorful history of more than 100 appearances before judges, as well as hospitalizations for mental illness...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

Neither a Republican nor a Democrat, Fenton advocates electing judges while at the same time ending the Massachusetts sales tax. He doesn't know the national anthem. At a recent debate, he asked, "Is this the land of the home and the free and the brave...

Author: By Benjamin J. Heller, | Title: DART BOARD | 5/11/1994 | See Source »

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