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Imagine yourself in the throes of wild, passionate sex in a one-room Manhattan apartment. With bold nudity and sound effects to rival Meg Ryan's famous restaurant scene, the opening scene to Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune can only be described as the play's climax...
...defenses. Mack, in fact, turns into a benign busybody, trying to pat almost all the lives that touch his into shape. His work comes out a little too neatly, but Kline's performance, like all the others, is engagingly soft- spoken. And well spoken. The screenplay -- by Lawrence and Meg Kasdan -- has a nice, unforced wit, and Lawrence Kasdan's direction has its jagged edges. If sometimes this loose and anecdotal film loses dramatic pace, it always rights itself. And it remains steadily in touch with its best qualities -- generosity, common sense and a mature decency that is neither smug...
Many authors choose movies in which they originally identified with a central character. This is true for Meg Wolitzer's piece on Teresa Wright's role as Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt. Wolitzer related to the character's youthful naivete and fascination with her mysterious Uncle Charlie. Looking back, Wolitzer sees that the question of otherness explored by director Alfred Hitchcock, in the elder Charlie, captivated both Wright's Charlie and herself-- otherness in terms of age and gender...
Harvard's defense was equally impressive. Junior Erin Matias was the best sweeper in the Ivies. Johnston played alongside Weinstein, an All-Ivy selection, senior Skyler Vinton and sophomore Meg Berte...
...friend, were baseless. Shortly after he wrote his op-ed-page piece, Williams was told by Post assistant managing editor Tom Wilkinson of the newsroom-harassment charges, which Williams claims involved only a few innocent "jokes." In what the Post admits was an administrative lapse, Meg Greenfield, who edits the op-ed page, was not informed by either Wilkinson or executive editor Leonard Downie of Williams' potential conflict. That his piece ran with no mention of the sexual-harassment charges against him apparently inspired several Post employees to add their names to the list of his alleged victims...