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...told us there are no second acts in American lives. Fortunately, TV is not life. And ever since Ozzy Osbourne's and Jessica Simpson's comebacks, TV has been doling out second and third acts like Halloween candy. Eccentric Charlie's Angel Farrah Fawcett, p.r. queen Lizzie Grubman and gossip-beset Britney Spears have done reality shows. Kirstie Alley responded to being the butt--so to speak--of tabloid fat jokes on Showtime's sitcom Fat Actress. This summer scandal magnets Tommy Lee and Bobby Brown remind us who they are on NBC and Bravo, while next fall Martha Stewart...
...characters never meet, but their parallel lives converge when the antagonism within the Maze, and the political stakes outside, start to rise. The political and religious jangle of Belfast in 1979 is the backdrop for a vivid tale of lives filled with booze, cigarettes, bad food and murderous gossip. But the real meat of This Human Season lies in the scrunched spaces between day-to-day survival and the weight of history. Moran is preoccupied with worry over her children and her loss of faith in both God and her husband. "She had grown up around here, she knew everyone...
...Sant, from the U.S., and Egoyan, the Canadian, are revered for their elaborate, eccentric visions, we figured we would not get simple tabloid tattle. We came expecting an upscale approach that would anatomize the tawdry headlines and view the sordid spectacle from a remote, ironic height. Art-film gossip is dish best served cold...
...children. We respond to courtesy, not cutthroat corporate behavior." Fionie Stavert, an organizer with the N.S.W. Teachers Federation, says she's cynical enough to believe that in certain parts of Sydney parental complaints about teachers peak during rainy spells - the mothers have missed out on their tennis so they gossip about teachers over coffee instead. Stavert credits most teachers with enormous restraint: one, she recalls, barely flinched when told by a mother: "You are a public servant and I expect you to serve...
...place to place, and allows a rider to enjoy the guitar stylings of tone-deaf singers, but the real reason I ride the T is that my cell phone cant ring. While sitting on the T, Ia Harvard student with papers to write, activities to activitate, and roommates to gossip withhave license to do absolutely nothing...