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...fight erupted over the TV industry's proposed rating system, the product of nine months of work by a 21-member task force overseen by Jack Valenti, president of the Motion Picture Association of America. The plan, which was still being fine-tuned last week, establishes six broad rating categories. Children's programming would be labeled either TV-Y (for shows acceptable for all ages) or TV-7 (for shows with some violence or other material unsuitable for children under seven). Other fare would be classified as TV-G (for all audiences); TV-PG (parental guidance suggested...
Meanwhile, the Simpson custody trial also took an unexpected turn when the Brown family, which is seeking to gain permanent guardianship of Simpson's two children, filed a motion to introduce the details of the murder case into the custody dispute. Judge Nancy Wieben Stock will decide whether to allow that evidence this week. If she does, the custody proceeding could become yet another mini-murder trial...
make monkey-motion: (St. Vincent, Guyana) to make funny faces or perform antics...
...deep thoughts. Still, one night at a corporate retreat, he drafts a manifesto--"The Things We Think and Do Not Say: The Future of Our Business"--distributes it to his colleagues, receives a round of hypocritical applause and then gets fired. Thus is Jerry Maguire the film set in motion. Maguire leaves S.M.I. with one client, an undervalued wide receiver named Rod Tidwell (Cuba Gooding Jr.), and an accountant named Dorothy Boyd (the gently winsome Renee Zellweger...
Collaboration is the lifeblood of the musical theater: Mozart and Da Ponte, Verdi and Boito, Strauss and Hofmannsthal. But posthumous collaboration has had to wait until the advent of the phonograph, motion pictures and the camcorder. Today the late George Gershwin can play Rhapsody in Blue with Michael Tilson Thomas, Natalie Cole can sing a duet with her deceased dad Nat King Cole--and composer Philip Glass can write a trilogy of operas with the French author, aesthete and movie director Jean Cocteau, dead since...