Word: friend
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reportedly told a friend later that Ron said he had taken out $100,000 in insurance on Tyler--and that he had plans on how they could spend it together. She slammed down her wedding ring and was walking out when Ron threatened suicide. Who'd believe this? she wondered. Who could believe this thing? She sent him to bed and sat watch. In the morning she drove him to the sheriff's, where he repeated his confession and was charged with murder. She has been back to the house only once...
...this is to say that Passions is devoid of promise. Indeed, there are flashes of a certain kind of genius in the first episode alone, which has a self-exiled Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) in France visiting Sacre Coeur every day to mourn the loss of her best friend. That best friend was Princess Diana, who we now learn was on her way to visit Sheridan when she met her ill fate in that Parisian tunnel. The show doesn't make clear why this information never surfaced on Hard Copy...
...develop over a long period--but he had to do them for AI, which mixes computer-generated figures with human actors. As with all things Kubrickian, the story line is a bit of a mystery. Semel describes it as "a boy in space and artificial intelligence," while Kubrick's friend and producer on Eyes, Jan Harlan, says it's "a study of a society well in the future where you cannot have a child without a license...
...surely up to something distinctly antisocial. One-two-three, Faraday acquires the evidence suggesting that Oliver has taken over another man's identity and is almost certainly a quietly mad bomber. The cautionary notes struck by Faraday's new girlfriend (Hope Davis) and old FBI friend (Robert Gossett) seem purely conventional and very likely a signal that they're not going to survive to the end of the movie...
...friend and I recently found ourselves on tour at Cornell University, the western outpost of the Ivy League. As two college students in a gaggle of high-school seniors and their parents practically beside themselves in the "Is this the right place?" soul searching, it was a chance to go incognito and try to remember what it is we do and why people seem to fawn so easily. ("That's a Harvard student," I recall a mother telling her daughter one morning my first year as I rushed half-awake to breakfast. Her daughter wrote it down dutifully. It must...