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...protection services. In other instances where a child needs help, phone counselors may simply stay on the line until a problem is resolved. Bruce Nelson, the hospital's quietly intense community services director, who often works the phones himself, remembers an eight-year-old girl racked with chills and fever who said she had been vomiting all day: "She was crying all the time we talked to her." He called a nurse to the phone and notified the hospital's child-protection unit. Social workers suggested calling 911, but the girl balked, protesting that Mom would be "upset." Attempts...
...cross-country drive, renting a Chrysler convertible in Miami and wending his way along the Gulf Coast through towns like Pensacola and Biloxi. But the summer heat and stale motel air left him dehydrated, and by the time he reached Little Rock, he was running a 100 degrees fever...
Little Rock? When Barry Diller wanders the country, even unemployed, he doesn't touch base with just the common folk. Though his fever put a damper on his private dinner with Bill and Hillary Clinton, Diller still mustered some typical words of advice for the future President. The primaries were over, but Ross Perot's popularity was starting to worry the Clinton camp. "I told him, 'You've won. Act like it.' " It's one piece of advice Barry Diller will never need. Winner or not, he always acts like...
Direction, by the acclaimed Jerry Zaks, seems strongest when the scenes demand the most. When the quickest pace and the most chaotic action are required, Zaks orchestrates the madness beautifully. Occasionally, however, when things are at less than fever pitch, the action seems stagy, or just not very engaging; the very first scene, in which the two Asian actors introduce their plan to sneak into The Real Manchu in white face, is the least interesting five minutes of the whole play, in terms of both writing and directing. The actors seem to still be finding their beats, and laughs...
...PROBLEM WITH FEEL-GOOD MOVIES is that they browbeat the viewer with their strident optimism; like a Stalinist nanny, they shout, "Feel good!" Such a one is STRICTLY BALLROOM, an audience hit at several festivals. In this Australian musical comedy, West Side Story meets Saturday Night Fever, and everyone -- especially the thoughtful moviegoer -- ends up exhausted. On a ballroom dance floor, director Baz Luhrmann sets in motion all manner of human and cinematic gargoyles. You've never seen so many fisheye close-ups of goofy faces caked with bad makeup. Watching the film is like being condemned to perform...