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...Script planned to run an article about how the school cafeteria had finally passed health inspections after violating 30 provisions of the health code in September. JoAnn Haysbert, acting president and provost of Hampton, wrote a letter criticizing media coverage of the incident and mentioning the University’s consistent efforts to ameliorate the violations. She wanted the letter to run on the front page. The newspaper chose to run their article on the front page and the letter on page three...
...statement released about the ASNE decision, Haysbert writes, “The Hampton Script Task Force... continues to meet regularly and I am confident that through their efforts the University will establish clarified guidelines for the operation of the Hampton Script.” These guidelines should not be rules dictating the constant supervision of the newspaper, but rather a check on administration power...
...stylish homage to director Douglas Sirk, whose soapy melodramas like All That Heaven Allows (1955) are respected by film buffs for their baroque sentimentality and cynical undertones. Directed by Todd Haynes, Far from Heaven stars Julianne Moore as a white 1950s housewife who falls for her black gardener (Dennis Haysbert), scandalizing the suburban populace of Hartford, Conn. Quaid is her overachieving husband, who confesses to her that he's gay. The expertly rendered performance (plus his own comeback story) could get Quaid his first Oscar nomination. "I had success back in the '80s, but I never really appreciated it then...
...which is true and sounds more like a critical historical thesis than the edgy, absorbing movie Haynes has made. He is able to raise the melodramatic stakes. Yes, his Cathy (Julianne Moore) is drawn to her gardener (Dennis Haysbert) in the same way Jane Wyman once was to Rock Hudson. But he is now a black man, thus infinitely more threatening to suburban comity. Her husband (Dennis Quaid) is a workaholic, as emotionally absent as any Sirk hero. But he is also coming to belated terms with his long-closeted homosexuality. Haynes is opening issues here that '50s movies could...
...again, and finally the two (who teamed up for USA's La Femme Nikita) worked backward to write a story that would justify the gimmick. Starting at midnight, counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) has 24 hours to foil an attempt to assassinate Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert), who is about to become the first major African-American nominee for President. People in Bauer's agency may be in on the hit, so he can't trust anyone. Oh, and his teenage daughter (Elisha Cuthbert) is AWOL in a van with two skeevy-seeming young...