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...communications policy that obligates broadcasters to air opposing views on issues of public importance. He wants to eradicate the "777 Rule," which aims to promote diversity by preventing companies from owning more than seven AM, seven FM and seven TV stations. He has proposed an end to the 16-min.-per-hr. limit on television commercials. Fowler also wants to do away with the comparative renewal process, which verifies whether broadcasters are meeting minimal requirements to air nonentertainment fare such as news, public affairs and educational programming. In recent weeks the FCC has been at the center of a highly...
...Jews have a word for what it took to make this movie: chutzpah. Barbra Streisand-the producer, director, co-writer and star of Yentl-spent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this...
...aviation ended at 3:25 p.m. on Oct. 30, when TWA Flight 4, the last Boeing 707 to fly for a scheduled airline in the continental U.S., touched down at New York City's Kennedy International Airport. During its 2-hr. 40-min. flight from Miami, the jet's 79 passengers ceremoniously sipped champagne. Before disembarking, the travelers stripped the aircraft of most detachable memorabilia, including seat-number plaques and safety instruction cards. Flight attendants used their lipsticks to write "Goodbye, we love you" on walls and seats. On the plane's silver fuselage a Miami gate...
Even in its horrendously truncated U.S. version (some 40 min. have been cut), Possession is a more engaging movie than it has any right to be. Zulawski's images are attractively dour: gray and brown, with the only assertive color an occasional shock of blood red. Adjani is a sullen ravisher, gorgeous and half bonkers. Like the movie itself, Adjani has the power of her pretentiousness...
...people here, only targets, stick figures on a Midwestern landscape waiting to be wasted. A kind of predictable character collage revolving erratically around the travails of Robards' nicely realized surgeon, the movie misses dramatic force because it has no center. It does, however, have a centerpiece, a 4-min. sequence representing the atomization of Middle America and, by extension, much of the rest of the world...