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...walk down the street now and I can't say hello to them. I don't know who the hell they...
What lies on the other side of the bridge? For pessimists the new millennium is time's equivalent of those stretches of pre-Columbian ocean on which European mapmakers wrote, "Here be monsters." Either/or: The imagination projects either apocalypse or high-tech wonders, either hell or heaven. Clinton, whose theology is politics, projects a nation going through the biggest changes since industrialization depopulated the farms 100 years ago. Once a balanced budget is in place, he thinks, the basic source of American political conflict in the past decade will have vanished. The country will be ready to search...
...electrical engineer before devoting his energies to playing bass in various blues-rock bands. Comedy was his deepest passion, however. "I always wanted to be in Second City," he says, referring to the renowned Chicago-based comedy troupe. "But growing up in Albuquerque I thought, How the hell do you get to be one of those guys?" It wasn't until 1991 that Judge, already married and living in Dallas, decided to express his inner funnyman through animation. With the help of a few library books, he taught himself the craft, which quickly led to the making of Frog Baseball...
...flashbacks of my own disastrous, painful, abusive relationship with my first husband. I can picture myself with a double-barreled shotgun standing over him while he was sleeping, the father of my only child, and trying to decide if this was the way I wanted to end my "living hell." Kay Weekley was a victim of a tragedy that has happened to others over and over again. I know the pain and I have the scars. Like her I had come to the end of my rope after a beating that left my body broken and traumatized...
Welcome to the sitcom from hell, redeemed into a lesson of togetherness. Marvin's Room, the 1991 Scott McPherson play, filmed by Jerry Zaks, is an old-fashioned weepie of noble mien with many bright moments and a superb cast. It's a tonic to see Keaton making sense of sanctity, DiCaprio refusing to sentimentalize a disturbed teenager. The impossible challenge goes to Streep; she's supposed to escort Lee on a forced march from belligerence into family harmony. "How can one sister be so good and the other so bad?" asks Aunt Ruth. The answer: careless writing. The movie...