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...predecessor, HBO's If These Walls Could Talk 2 (various dates in March) takes a high-concept approach--three stories set in one house in three decades--to a high-profile issue: in the first, abortion; here, lesbianism. (Walls 3 will no doubt treat health-care reform.) Like its forebear, this uneven but worthwhile film is less about sex than its aftermath. In "1961," Vanessa Redgrave, whose lover of 50 years has died, meets the woman's nephew, arrived to dispose of the house he's inherited and clueless about the lifestyle of his "maiden aunt." Redgrave deftly sketches...
...Etiquette can make the difference between getting ahead in the workplace or being left behind." So say experts Peggy and Peter Post, the third generation of writers in the Emily Post family to tackle the topic of civilized behavior. Their forebear's fierce belief in the importance of good manners is passed on faithfully in the duo's helpful new book The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success (HarperCollins...
...regressing professional girly women, Amy takes as its heroine Judge Amy Gray (Amy Brenneman), who's returned from New York City to Hartford, Conn., to live with her social-worker mother (Tyne Daly). Amy benefits from a strong cast and a slightly harder-nosed attitude than its treacly forebear, but if this judge doesn't stop wearing her robe like a security blanket soon, she's going to try our patience...
There was also the problem that the Kennedys share with everyone descended from a famous forebear--how to escape seeming a pale version of the original, like Frank Sinatra Jr. Joe Kennedy, who came to Congress worried that he could never match the luster of his famous elders, once told friends, "Every time I speak, a lot of people expect to hear President Kennedy's Inaugural Address...
...people who brought you last week's blitzkrieg of antismoking billboards may have an unlikely forebear: ADOLF HITLER. In his forthcoming The Nazi War on Cancer (Princeton University Press), Penn State history professor ROBERT N. PROCTOR suggests that Nazi researchers were the first to recognize the connection between cancer and cigarettes. The prevailing view was that British and American scientists established the lung-cancer link during the early 1950s. In fact, says Proctor, "the Nazis conducted world-class studies in this field." But their findings, because of the abhorrent medical practices used by the regime, were ignored. Hitler, a teetotaling...