Word: meg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...beings subjecting theirs to whippings and punches and sexual perversion? Children, with their unrestrained love and unquestioning trust, deserve better. Says Sergeant Dick Ramon, head of the sex-crimes unit of the Seattle police department: "Child abuse is the ultimate crime, the ultimate betrayal." -By Ed Magnuson. Reported by Meg Grant/Los Angeles and James Wilde/New York
Particularly effective sequences include the morning before the wedding sequence in which Meg Leake as the panicking Amy does a magnificent job of spewing out the quickly paced lyrics without jumbling them up. Her frazzled acting seems extremely comic beside her calm understanding lover with whom she has lived for the past seven years. The rest of the ensemble clad in black choir robes and singing steady choral refrains rounds off an exquisite number...
Director Franklin even plays on the audience's worst expectations about sequels and gets his best laughs by not quite ful filling them. As Norman, Anthony Perkins is knowing, in on the joke, but decently wary about going too far. Meg Tilly, as his young friend, plays the reality principle with winning spunk. Given just a bit more style and drive, Psycho II might have entirely overcome its doubt less cynical origins. But even as it stands, it is a modest, surprisingly agreeable entertainment...
...first published in 1960, has gradually seem this gap in perception shrink over the years. Now the author of some 20 additional adult and children's books, she still gets about 60 letters a week from appreciative readers and readers of the same story, which follows 12-years-old Meg and her brother on a quest through time space and mathematics to save their father from evil forces. In this early 1960s, L 'Engle says, the letters were almost all from children. But since then the balances has gradually shifted, and more than half her readers are past adolescence...
...page, not a single page of the original remained. The writer obviously though it was a book for little tiny children," she says bristling up as if the film makers had attacked one of her own off spring. "He made Meg 10 years old. 10! what happens to her relationship with Calvin at age 10. I'd like to know?" Almost as an afterthought she add. "In a white heat of outrage I dashed of 25 pages of film treatment." After some political reshuffles, she is now shuttling back and forth to Hollywood to finish...