Word: griefs
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...that critics care enough to carp about a mere TV show, he feels, is both ridiculous and a tribute to the level of quality Seinfeld, the show, has maintained over its nine seasons. Consequently, Seinfeld, the person, has been even more perplexed and flattered by the outpouring of national grief that came with the Christmas announcement that his show would be pulling its plug even though it is currently the nation's top-rated sitcom, even though it is as popular and lucrative as ever, even though the audience has not yet tired of the self-absorbed lives of Jerry...
Holm responds to this challenge with a solid, subtle performance. His challenge is to portray grief without obvious emotional excess. Holm, the actor best known for his supporting role in Chariots of Fire, seems resigned and defeated. His gravelly voice shows that he is a man defeated by life, merely performing his job out of custom. He only rises from his dejection when forced to show anger, the only emotion that he has left...
...reason rarely prevails when personal grief is at stake. Even in liberal Massachusetts, in the wake of several child murders, prompted by the parents of a 10-year-old victim, the State Legislature voted 81-79 to reinstate the death penalty for the first time since...
...child cope with her mother's violent death? Little Ponette (the amazing Victoire Thivisol) simply refuses to believe her mother is gone and waits desperately for her return. In a morbid year for films, Jacques Doillon's shattering French drama gets at a rare truth: surrendering to grief can give one a reason to live...
...then there is Diana, the woman who was, all by herself, the punctum of the late 20th century. She was, for one thing, the princess and the pauper, the improbably lustrous creature who also carried her (our?) mere humanity into the throne room. Sometimes the grief at her death seemed out of proportion, but only if you forgot the real question it presented: If the most luminous woman in the world can die, what hope is there for the rest...