Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Melvin's isolated life is complicated by developing relationships with two acquaintances: a gay painter (Greg Kinnear) who lives in the apartment next door, and a lovely, down-to-earth waitress (Helen Hunt) who serves him lunch every day. Melvin doesn't technically befriend either character. His first words to Simon, the painter, are bigoted and vicious, and all he wants from Carol the waitress is his bacon and eggs done right with as little small talk as possible...
...Helen Hunt plays Carol perfectly: more than just a foil for Nicholson's humor, she captivates both his and the audience's attention whenever on screen. Carol, struggling between her sick son, her job and unsatisfying relationships with men, is both desperate and dignified. The movie itself, like Melvin, seems to be falling a little bit in love with her. At times she holds the screen in silence for a moment and nearly stares Melvin into sensibility...
...eating binges. "Around Thanksgiving," says Di Novi, "he was really heavy, even heavier than he's been the past couple of years." On Wednesday, he was up till 3 a.m., imbibing Jack Daniels-and-Cokes, finishing off the night with his two brothers at a Christmas party at the Hunt Club, where he was a regular. At one point, he did his Wolfman Jack impersonation and then asked, in a little-boy voice, "Don't you think I'm being funny...
...Showalter exposes the enormous harm done by the recovered-memory syndrome as it was applied to everything from multiple personalities to intrafamilial sex-abuse cases, in which abuses "remembered" never occurred. Showalter also notes that hysterias tend to produce scapegoats, which was borne out by the Princess Diana paparazzi hunt. As gratifying as it may have been for people to find a target of blame, most journalists recognize that the difference between the paparazzi and legitimate news photographers is roughly...
Saddam should have been punished for his crimes after Desert Storm. You don't just chase away a rattlesnake. You hunt it down and kill it. JACK DENNIS Milledgeville...