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Depending on whom you ask, the Rev. Herman Fountain's Bethel Home for Children is either successful therapy for troubled youths or a Dickensian nightmare. Last week a bizarre standoff between Fountain and state officials climaxed when police raided his Lucedale, Miss., Baptist school and church, rounding up 72 children between the ages of ten and 17. Earlier, a state judge had ruled that the children had been subjected to "physical abuse, medical neglect and detention amounting to imprisonment," and ordered that the state department of public welfare take them into emergency custody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mississippi: School for Scandal | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...this elaborate new blend of animation and live action co-produced by Disney and Steven Spielberg, the "cartoon before the movie" is how the movie begins. As you settle into your seat, the Maroon cartoon studio logo flares onto the screen, announcing Who Framed Roger Rabbit, starring Baby Herman and Roger Rabbit. For a few minutes of inventive mayhem, the infant crawls toward every lethal kitchen appliance while his harried hare of a baby-sitter works frantically to keep things from blowing up. It's the comedy of anticipated disaster -- the nightmare anxiety that propelled so many of Avery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

...film's nice conceit that Roger, Baby Herman and all the other characters from '40s Hollywood animation are creatures of a subhuman species known as Toons. They breathe, they emote, and sometimes they get cuckolded by their sultry wives. Jessica Rabbit, Roger's spouse, is one such bimbette. "I'm not bad," Jessica pouts, "I'm just drawn that way." But all Toontown knows she's been spending time with Marvin Acme, who owns the local gagworks. So when Marvin gets bumped off, Roger is the prime suspect. His only hope is Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), a human detective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Creatures of A Subhuman Species WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT | 6/27/1988 | See Source »

Great athletes deserve great names. We don't remember George Herman Ruth. We remember the Babe. We don't remember LEw Alcindor. We remember Kareem...

Author: By Mark Brazaitis, | Title: Don't Call Her Evelyn... | 6/9/1988 | See Source »

...CAINE MUTINY COURT-MARTIAL (CBS, May 8, 9 p.m. EDT). The officers of the Caine vs. a mentally unstable Captain Queeg (Brad Davis), in Robert Altman's new production of Herman Wouk's drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: May 2, 1988 | 5/2/1988 | See Source »

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