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...know where the line is," says John Ridley, a novelist and a TV and film writer who has written for cable and broadcast, "and that's what's scaring people." To better draw the line, industry sources tell TIME, broadcasters are considering a court test case--possibly even trying to overturn the 1978 ruling that defined the FCC's indecency standard, on the grounds of inconsistency. "There are two difficulties" that the FCC faces, says a broadcast executive. "One is that extreme [regulatory] positions are going to run into constitutional problems. The second is inconsistent and vague rulings are going...
Dickens was the first novelist who really nailed life in the modern city, and Gaffney's Manhattan, with its horse carts and street urchins, is still recognizably Dickensian. But the New York of Thomas Kelly's Empire Rising, set in 1930, is very much a 20th century beast: caffeinated, electrified, car and money and baseball crazy, with subways rumbling in its bowels and skyscrapers sprouting from its scalp. Kelly's hero, a good-natured Irishman named Michael Briody, is busy riveting together the skeleton of the Empire State Building, which at the peak of construction grew by a floor...
Thursday, March 24. Huston’s The Maltese Falcon (U.S., 1941). 8 p.m. Introduced by novelist Robert B. Parker. Brattle Theater. $9. Tickets available at theater or www.brattlefilm.org...
However, some of the new twists on old genres are vibrant enough to make the project worthwhile. Perhaps predictably, these stories are from the best-known creators—including Brian K. Vaughan (Ex Machina and Y: The Last Man), bestselling novelist Glen David Gould (Carter Beats the Devil) and legendary graphic novel creator Will Eisner (A Contract With God), whose last story before his recent death recounts a meeting between The Escapist and Eisner’s own The Spirit...
Previous recipients of the award include more political figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and novelist Elie Wiesel. Although an actor like Stone seems unlikely company for such dignitaries, Harvard Foundation Director Dr. S. Allen Counter called Stone “the embodiment of humanitarianism,” referring to her 10 years of AIDS advocacy work as the campaign chairman of the American Foundation for AIDS Research (amFAR...