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Bill Clinton is a canny player of political poker. In criticizing movies for their grossness, as he has in the wake of Littleton and other teen tragedies, Clinton is playing his Dan Quayle card. It's not the wrong card, but it is a low one. You can ask for movies to be gentler, a tiny bit more attentive to the power of the repeated image over the young. But after criticizing what's there, think about what's missing. Can we please have a little grandeur and depth in movies? Not of armies on parade or edifying soap operas...
...predictably snide, fashionably cynical and, in at least one instance, inaccurate. Contrary to the implication in the piece, I have not just discovered "the elixir of schoolroom values." My interest in the Character Counts movement and character education in America's schools didn't start with the Littleton, Colo., murders. I've been involved in the program for six years at the state and federal levels. The impetus for character education comes from the parents. It is the second most important thing that parents want from public schools, and it is a goal that most parents think the schools fail...
...After Littleton, I didn't know what to feel. Luckily, it wasn't long before famous people told me. The moment that made me feel most at ease occurred when Sharon Stone surrendered her four guns to the police. That's because I had called her last year for a Q&A column, and all I said was "You're about to marry some journalist guy, right?" and she hung up on me. Imagine if I had got to "So, have you slept with the President?" If it were up to me, Stone would hand over everything but her butter...
...While Littleton was a tragedy for America, it was a great moment for show-biz talent. Not only did it finally bring Gloria Estefan to the White House to discuss gun control--which will no doubt encourage Brandy to attend some House Judiciary meetings--but it also forced other celebrities to tell us their political opinions. Rosie O'Donnell, who does ads for the rifle-selling K Mart chain, yelled at Tom Selleck for doing an ad for the N.R.A. The next week O'Donnell allegedly asked guest Bernadette Peters, who was going to sing on Rosie's show...
...career, however, wasn't getting any buzz off this Littleton thing. So even though I don't own any guns, I thought I should buy some and turn them over to the police. Stone, I was surprised to learn, was either too busy script reading or scaring some reporter to go to the station herself, so she got the police to come to her house to pick up the guns. I called the New York police to find out if they would pick up some guns from my apartment. They told me to sell them to a gun dealer...