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...most competitive summer Hollywood has ever experienced, but Spielberg is optimistic. "This should happen every summer," says the director who practically invented the blockbuster with Jaws in 1975. "We should be so lucky. You go to these multiplexes, and you see Spider-Man. Then you see Y Tu Mama Tambien playing next door. A hit movie puts people in a movie mood." Audiences will notice that this is Spielberg's edgiest action movie yet. They will also see that his talent for blending extraordinary visions with everyday familiarity remains intact. Twenty years ago, he showed us an extraterrestrial with...
TUESDAY, DAY 4: Desperate, I investigate the TV-Turnoff Network's suggested coping techniques. One of them is to "learn something new about your grandparents." I call Mama Ann and tell her about my project and how TV-Turnoff Week asked people not to watch television for the week. "That's not nice," she said. When I pressed her for info, she said, "I play canasta. What else? Nothing much. At my age, you want me to find something exciting?" No, but I wasn't letting her go. Finally, eager to get me off the phone, she confessed that...
...GOING OUT IN THAT?" Apparently you're never too young to show off what your mama gave you. This summer Burberry is offering its first really itsy-bitsy bikini. It's $70, not including swim lessons...
...TUESDAY, DAY 4: Desperate, I investigate the TV-Turnoff Network's suggested coping techniques. One of them is to "learn something new about your grandparents." I call Mama Ann and tell her about my project and how TV-Turnoff Week asked people not to watch television for the week. "That's not nice," she said. When I pressed her for info, she said, "I play canasta. What else? Nothing much. At my age, you want me to find something exciting?" No, but I wasn't letting her go. Finally, eager to get me off the phone, she confessed that...
...people I’ll be leaving behind, at least for the moment. There’s the impending breakup of the Fab Four—my three best friends from China, Ethiopia and Vietnam whom I’ve been with since fourth grade. There’s Mama, and my little sister, and my dad. And soon there will be no more Harvard, either. For a person who cares too much and wants to do everything, even when slowing down, Bob Dylan, my favorite musician, said it right: “Time is a jet plane. It moves...