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...movie nears its debut this weekend, the uproar has settled into a generally respectful buzz. Shilts' prodigiously researched 600-page book has been boiled down to a fact-filled, dramatically coherent, occasionally moving 2 hours and 20 minutes. At a time when most made-for-TV movies have gone tabloid crazy, here is a rare one that tackles a big subject, raises the right issues, fights the good fight. That is both its strength and its weakness...
Third-year student and Record staffer Bob Daut draws an analogy between the MacIntyre column and "your made-for-TV movies based on drama," saying that both are "chroni-calization[s] of reality...
...Texas, where 86 persons died in a fire last week after the FBI began an assault. This is a reconstruction of the actual site in Oklahoma where, before the last bodies were removed from the real rubble in Waco, an NBC crew was recording an enactment for a made-for-TV movie airing next month. In Ohio, meanwhile, another standoff, quite real, came to a less violent end as the more than 400 prisoners who took over a state penitentiary surrendered. The death toll was still brutal: a guard and nine inmates. (See cover stories beginning on page...
Fisher, 18, is now in jail in connection with the shooting of Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of an older man with whom Fisher supposedly had an affair while she was a high school student. Her case drew national attention from tabloids and inspired three made-for-TV movies...
Tragedy cures dysfunction. So made-for-TV movies teach us. Death and disease, addiction, abuse and abduction -- shattering though these may be at first, all eventually cause fictional (or, more likely, fictionalized) families to draw closer together, to discover new strengths in the final reel's final analysis...