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...feelingly but frankly explored such difficult topics as incest (1971's "Le Souffle En Coeur") and child prostitution ("Pretty Baby", his 1978 American debut). Yet his high-voltage subjects contrasted with an often reflective style, captured in his stateside success "Atlantic City" (1980), starring Burt Lancaster as an aging hood, and 1981's "My Dinner with Andre", in which two friends wrestle over the earthly, the transcendent, and some painfully nouvelle cuisine. Malle called "Au Revoir Les Enfants" (1988), an autobiographical account of Jewish children hiding from the Holocaust at a French Catholic School, "the one film I would like...
...could not read the play along political lines. People view Heidi as an emblem for the women's movement itself, so that her decision is seen as a defeat for feminism. Wasserstein, who was herself an activist not unlike Heidi, wrote the play to confront her resignation from superwoman-hood, and the sadness she felt at remaining single with no children. Heidi's path mirrored the one she herself would have chosen, but for ardent feminists, this...
Kammler says there is now one hood for every two students, which is comparable to the level of facilities enjoyed by graduate students engaged in research...
...taken only six months for the average American baseball fan to exchange his or her guarded loyalty for lemming-hood. The protests and low attendance figures that greeted players and owners at the beginning of this strike-shortened season have been replaced by the annual rite of pennant fever...
Washington is more candid on other topics. He ridicules Senator Bob Dole's suggestion that there's too much sex and violence in movies: "I've looked at C-SPAN and said the same thing." Although he loved the movies Menace II Society and Boyz N the Hood, he feels the gangsta film genre may be exhausted: "I don't pay to see 'life in the hood' movies anymore. That story's been told. If someone has something to spill from their heart, God bless 'em, they should...but if someone's just saying, 'Oh I'm gonna keep doing...