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...Robbins film "The Cradle Will Rock," the 1975 ABC TV movie "The Night That Panicked America" and the 1999 HBO docudrama "RKO 281." From his first flush as a prodigy to his long maturity, when he ballooned or diminished into the butt of fat jokes, Welles spurred countless anecdotes, gossip, myths, not all of his own making. His life and films have been the subject of more than 100 books. But none of them is primarily about Welles? radio career...
...panelists relished the task, in part because it gave them a chance to swap notes (and a little bit of gossip) on the contenders. It helped that they came from different disciplines: Thomas Cech, who heads the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, shared the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1989, while Herbert Pardes, the president of New York Presbyterian Hospital, teaches psychiatry at Columbia, and J. Richard Gott is an astrophysicist at Princeton. M.I.T.'s Steven Pinker and Harvard's Stephen Kosslyn specialize in brain and cognitive sciences; Thomas Lovejoy is a tropical biologist who serves as chief biodiversity adviser...
...Instead of circling their wagons around one of their own, amejo and kokujo are disdainful of and angry at the victim. Some gossip she dated the defendant; others speculate her friends shamed her into calling it a rape. They all agree the incident has brought unwanted, critical attention to them and their habits. "Amejo is a derogatory term, isn't it?" says Hitomi Murayama, a long-haired 24-year-old in baggy hip-hop clothing. "It's just another way for mainland Japanese to look down on Okinawa. They don't understand that we Okinawans are naturally friendly and outgoing...
...other hand, consider this. America comprises a diverse, centrifugal democracy that is both morally and culturally chaotic. Can it be that these stories - these great gossip items -are what we have in common? Are they the exemplary tales through which we sort out and dramatize and universalize our values...
...that the slavering media are instruments in a larger sociobiology that replicates, on a national (or even international) scale, the gossip dynamics of a village? Gossip - however vicious, obsessive, and intrusive - has always served an important community function. The stories work as parables, forms of instruction, universal metaphors. (What, God help us, does the parable of O.J. Simpson instruct our children about justice...