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...obscurity into oblivion? We do. There may be no masterpieces (possibly excepting John McNaughton's Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, which achieved theatrical notoriety after release on video), but DTVs offer a few nostalgic pleasures. They are made by clever craftsmen who for next to nothing provide professional gloss and a story no worse than most movies and TV shows. And if you're looking for strong B-movie stars, look no further. Shannon Tweed brings a sensible, almost schoolteacherish seriousness to her roles. Delia Sheppard (Mirror Images), who has retired from DTV to star in the Las Vegas...
Eton is famous for its blue bloods and for the statesmen and men of letters it has turned out. The students there acquire an elegance and gloss. Sue Townsend, author of the satirical The Queen and I and no monarchist, says, "William has that Etonian look already. The boys are burnished; they are like angels, you know, and they float around the world." It is likely that during his five years there, Wills won't have too much time to think about his battling parents. His day is a strict drill. Up at 8, compulsory chapel after breakfast, classes...
Jessica's mother even attached a patriotic gloss to Jessica's death, putting it in the context of the Declaration's rights to "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." "I did everything so this child could have freedom and choice," she told Today, "and have what America stands for. Liberty comes from being in that space of just living your life." But the Founding Fathers made a distinction between liberty and license, the latter being freedom that is used irresponsibly. License may have been precisely the freedom Jessica's parents gave...
...Magnificent Obsession) to musicals (Thoroughly Modern Millie in 1967) to comedies (a brace of Doris Day films) to dramas (1970's Airport), the typical Hunter product offered a high-calorie menu of top-priced Hollywood stars, expensive sets and sumptuous costuming that gave tragedy and melodrama a gloss of glamour...
Feelings of impotence born of the inability to protect those we love--Megan, the young girl whose name lives on in the law her death inspired, is a case in point--have led us to gloss over complexities and grasp at the closest semblance of security, even if in the process we destroy the sacred values of our society and brand people forever. Perhaps the saddest testament to our feeling of disintegration is that we are willing to give up on the possibilities of personal change to secure even a modicum of societal stability...