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...appearances by 13 CNN on-air personnel in the movie "Contact" delivering fictional news reports about a message from an alien civilization. Earlier, Shaw had appeared in "The Lost World" reporting that dinosaurs had run amok in San Diego. But "Contact" came under special scrutiny because CNN's parent company, Time Warner, also owns Warner Bros., which produced the film. Johnson said he wasn't pressured to lend his journalists to the movie. "It has created a concern among the professional community that we are being manipulated by Time Warner," he said. "We are not. Categorically...
DIED. BRIAN KEITH, 75, sturdy actor who played a police chief, a President and just about every other authority but God; by shooting himself, ending his struggle with cancer; in Malibu, Calif. Audiences preferred Keith as a father figure: he was the dad in The Parent Trap and a guardian in TV's Family Affair...
...nutty as it sounds, given the genetics of gender. Boys, by definition, get one X chromosome from their mother and one Y from their father. Girls have two Xs, one from each parent. Girls with Turner's syndrome have only a single complete X, and it can come from either Mom or Dad; modern genetic tests can reveal which...
...made enough trouble, he might be sent back west. Police believe he set the fire, then fled. One officer has said that, after police found him wandering the streets later that night, Malcolm admitted the crime. The boy's lawyers, who are moving to suppress that statement because no parent or attorney was present when he gave it, say Malcolm told one of them a different story...
...four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be fantastic or melodramatic, lighthearted or soul-splitting; the people in them may look exotic and speak other languages. Yet compared with the heroes of U.S. films, they are closer to us--almost inside us. They offer artful lessons in getting through a summer, or a life...