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PERHAPS 50 YEARS FROM NOW, HISTORians will see the O.J. Simpson trial as a significant turning point, marking a shift from white Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance to true multicultural pluralism in American society. JAMES R. FISHER JR. Tampa, Florida...
...group of black activists headed by civil rights leader Celes King III held a press conference in Los Angeles last week to announce that since many blacks supported Simpson through the trial, it was time for him to start giving back to the black community in some way. Robert Fisher, owner of a Woodland Hills, California, consulting firm that specializes in burnishing tarnished images, suggests that a Greta Garbo vanishing act may be appropriate for Simpson at this point: "He needs to stick with his kids and stay out of the limelight. If he's seen taking his kids...
...tear out of it. She knows how to get a laugh without bringing down the whole fragile edifice of her film. She is helped a lot by a terrific cast, which understands that playing madness is very serious business, and by Richard LaGravenese's wonderfully modulated script. From The Fisher King through A Little Princess and The Bridges of Madison County, he has demonstrated a gift for conveying honest sentiment without permitting us to wallow in it, and he's at his craftsmanlike best here. The flaky charms of Unstrung Heroes will be lost on some hardened souls...
Selective restriction of access to programming runs counter to one of the greatest goals of television, the dissemination of information. What will be next? A V Chip for advertising--filtering out infomercials, denture creams or the "Nacho Man?" A V Chip for different topics with settings for "no Amy Fisher," or "no O.J." or even "no Clinton...
...Forest Service will decide this fall whether to let Costner procure the parcel in exchange for a 585-acre site 12 miles from Deadwood. The Costners aren't talking, but Jim Fisher, program director for the planned resort, contends that the critics represent only a vocal minority of Sioux and that the resort will improve an 85-acre site that used to be a salvage yard. "We view all land as sacred," he says. "We're going to add something environmentally." Which doubtless won't calm the ruckus over what some Sioux are calling Costner's field of green...