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...life with so much enthusiasm, really living her life fully. This is something we really believe in and could hold true for everybody,” she said. Parise and co-writer Peter Stebbings used this idea as the inspiration for Jill. “She lives in every moment, takes risks, is messy, and is funny. She makes mistakes, she fixes them, and I felt like that was something everyone could learn from, myself included. That’s why we got involved with the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation.” When the film premieres in Providence on April...
Heston, who died April 5 at 84, was unique among Hollywood stars. Of no other actor could you say, He was born to play Moses, Ben-Hur, El Cid, Michelangelo. At the very moment Marlon Brando was freeing film-acting from good manners, Heston proved there was thrilling life in the endangered tradition of speaking well and looking great. And when he wasn't the movies' avatar of antique glory, he was our emissary to the future: the last man on earth in two dystopian science-fiction films, Planet of the Apes and The Omega Man. Heston was the alpha...
Even on less uplifting reality shows, the language of therapy is pervasive. Fox's lie-detector show, The Moment of Truth--in which players reveal hurtful secrets for money--is exploitative, garish and excruciating. But it is also essentially Dr. Phil in game-show form. Like a self-help talk show, Truth brings in family members to air dirty laundry, aiming for confrontation and catharsis. For every awful disclosure (a woman admits to having cheated on her husband), there's a sentimental moment (a father offers to become a bigger part of a grown child's life...
...doubtful that The Moment of Truth actually helps anyone (though the payouts could buy a lot of psychotherapy). We don't know if Supernanny improves anyone's long-term parenting, and there are no longitudinal studies to show if The Biggest Loser extends life spans. But like diet books that promise to keep off the fat forever (or until the next diet book, whichever comes first), these shows play off the American ideal of self-reinvention, the confidence that perfection is just one more makeover or 12-step program away...
What was your happiest moment, personally and professionally? -German Oliveros, Bucaramanga, ColombiaPersonally, it was the day I proposed to my wife. Nothing could ever touch when she said, 'yes.' Professionally the two moments that come to mind are when I got to Imaginarium, which was just such a joyous thing, and the very first "Building Virtual Worlds" show that we did. It's amazing when young kids do something that is literally beyond your imagination...