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...both with AIDS, were sitting in front of the TV set, feeling gloomy and hoping they'd have the strength to stay awake until midnight. Then the doorbell rang. An Open Hand volunteer walked in with a box decorated with streamers and balloons. It contained champagne, pate, cheese, truffles, a hat and a noisemaker. The men broke down and cried. This New Year's Eve Open Hand brought the same treat to everybody on its list...
...Cornell crowd delights in reminding Harvard Coach Bill Cleary about his bare pate. "The Harvard coach is bald," the crowd shouts, "the Harvard coach is bald." Cleary, the good-natured sport, pats his head and smiles...
Like his grandly obsessive contemporaries Robert De Niro and Dustin Hoffman, Olmos is a demon for authenticity. To play Escalante, he altered himself physically, gaining 40 lbs. and enduring a tedious makeup process daily to create a balding pate over his thick hair. The actor also spent hundreds of hours studying Escalante's speech patterns on recorded tapes and observing the teacher's mannerisms and personal habits both during and after school hours. "He even wanted to move in with Jaime," recalls the movie's director, Ramon Menendez, "but Escalante's wife wouldn't allow...
...goes the monk's balding pate, the scholar's red beard, the halfback's broad shoulders...
Most of the vignettes try to show how TV aims for the lowest common denominator, making its programming as shallow as possible. There are commercials for such products as Silly Pate, an hors d'oeurve that picks up newsprint, bounces off walls, and tastes good on crackers. An "In Search Of" type show called "Bullshit or Not?" proposes that jack the Ripper was really the Loch Ness monster in disguise. On a movie review show, the critics discuss in seriousness such films as "Frat Slobs" and the Swedish import "Winter of My Despondency...