Word: hirsch
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...based on the disappearance of six-year-old Etan Patz from a SoHo street in 1979, is an earnest, fatally muddled attempt to dramatize this dilemma. A boy is missing; his mother (Kate Nelligan) and father (David Dukes) wait and wait, not daring to despair; a sympathetic detective (Judd Hirsch) trudges after tantalizing leads; a kind of life goes...
...film's hero, Hirsch plays Al Manetti, a New York City detective who is in charge of the Selky investigation. Hirsch thoroughly develops a fallible character who must balance his intuitive belief that the search is hopeless with his sympathetic determination to help Susan find her son. Playing off Nelligan's calm exterior Hirsch gradually gains a deep respect and affection for her courageous struggle to keep her son's image alive...
...negative social pressure to gays and other minority groups of our desire is not going to be easy at first. Until we're able to whip up a consensus against them, there will be some anger and some protests You need to look at the advice of sociologist Fred Hirsch, who seems clearly to foresee the implications of your ideas, but who provides a warning...
Please don't take this personally, Director but Hirsch addresses a problem you haven't been willing, at least publicly, to deal with in your letters to the Indy and more recently to The Crimson, you have deftly explained the need and propriety of "negative social pressure" on gays. The idea is quite straightforward If society doesn't like gays, and it surely doesn't, society should try its damnedest to make sure that fewer people wind up that way. You haven't said explicitly what kinds of pressures would be used, but I think it's fairly easy...
...social pressures, society should respect their "basic rights," although you have not said in any of your letters what these rights are. Assuming you mean by "rights" certain powers or privileges to which Americans are universally entitled. I think, Director, that you need to take a hard look at Hirsch's point. The moment we begin to draw lines, separating the gays and the ugly from the rest, we take the chance of a "crackdown involving repression" of civil liberties and basic rights. By drawing lines we create an inferior class, and by applying "negative social pressure" to that class...