Word: parental
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...small, intimate films like sex, lies and videotape and The Crying Game to flashy game-changers including Pulp Fiction and the $300 million-grossing Chicago, the Weinsteins proved smart little pictures (as well as smart big ones) could find a wide audience if promoted properly. After leaving longtime corporate parent The Walt Disney Co. last year, the provocative pair have struck out on their own once more with a new boutique media concern simply called The Weinstein Company. TIME?s Jeffrey Ressner spoke to the brothers about their year-old enterprise...
...Episcopalians The 2003 election of an openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. has led to a real threat of internal schism and possible second-tier status in the Anglican Communion, its global parent...
...there, said his concerns go beyond aesthetic and environmental issues. Like other critics, he views wind-energy projects as a financial scheme that allows energy companies to set up "shell companies" that reap large tax abatement benefits from local, state and federal laws and apply those benefits to the parent company...
...being Santa isn't all fun and games. At this summer's convention, the men learned the hazards of overbleaching a beard--the whiskers can snap off. On a more sober note, they discussed what to do if a child's Christmas wish is for a parent to stop hitting him or her. "Santa can't just get up from his chair and go make a phone call to child services," Connaghan says. One strategy: Urge the child to confide in a teacher until the teacher believes...
...screen smoking has been implicated as the cause of 390,000 new teen smokers every year," says Nita Maddox, AMA Alliance president. "It is estimated that 120,000 of this group of new teen smokers will eventually die from tobacco use." The Alliance is launching a parent-to-parent grassroots campaign to make future movies rated G, PG and PG-13 smoke-free - an effort that could reverberate in other foreign countries where U.S films dominate and where, Maddox says, "the tobacco industry is hunting its next generation...