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...plaintiffs were a grim collection of the walking wounded. Mary Farnan, who has been smoking since age 11, has lung cancer that has spread to her brain. Frank Amodeo's throat cancer forces him to eat through a hole in his stomach. Loren Lowery, a Vietnam veteran, has had part of his tongue cut out and his jaw replaced twice. Not the kind of opponents you'd want to challenge in front of a jury...
...Brothers Grim: It is one of the most bizarre advertising campaigns to appear on television in recent years, and yet its segments contain more far-reaching wit than almost any other 1 1/2 minutes of must-see TV. Promoting MTV, the Jukka Brothers slots create a kind of Hansel and Gretel-meets-Deliverance world in which coolness-deprived backcountry woodsmen learn about the outside universe only through the bikini-filled music network. When's the movie...
...that wasn't enough, I saw something that really chilled my bones: two guys in their twenties working an intersection on Beverly. The signs around their necks read, "English Majors, will read poetry for food." No doubt actors out of work, they were a grim reminder that the rising economic tide has not lifted all boats, and that no college-degree holder should be over-confident about post-graduate successes. Not everyone, after all, makes it in Hollywood...
...people to buy the things they never needed, and, in its supreme form, to buy things they didn't even want. In the college world, these are large, impersonal classes at any level that you somehow feel privileged to join. At Harvard, Yale or any of these places, the grim reality of a 700-person introductory class with the professor far in the distance and a group of relatively unresponsive TF's becomes an unfortunate reality, but for someone to be actually touting the size of the biggest classes--and claiming that professors are simply willing and able to have...
...newly dead patient's daughter comes on to William powerfully yet pathetically; a cheerful prostitute invites him to a casual coupling; and, finally, in the movie's central sequence, he succeeds in invading a secret orgy, where masked couples disport themselves sexually in a display that is more grim than wanton...