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...Buddhism in India, Rubin admits the seminal idea for the movie came from Hamlet's vapory father. "The film's message is: Life turns on a dime, so tell people you love them," says Rubin. Director Blake Edwards, whose current film, Switch, tells the story of a male chauvinist pig who dies and returns to earth as a woman, believes spirit-filled movies are popular because "the kids are searching for something. Filmmakers are merely attempting to tap it." Producer Robert Lawrence recently paid $2 million for a proposed script called Manhattan Ghost Story. Says he: "In these films...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood Goes to Heaven | 6/3/1991 | See Source »

...gaped in openmouthed wonder at the members of Hillel, visible only through barred street-level windows, sitting down to a "supper" reminiscent of Roman orgies, with scantily clad servants popping grapes into the mouths of students awaiting the main course of a succulent Whole roast pig? What of the repeated complaints, registered with the Cambridge police by members of the Phoenix Club (which shares the Hillel building), of "moans...accompanied by what sounded like a leather lash"--on a Saturday afternoon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hillel Is a Hot Bed of Sin | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

This is not the same sweet, pudgy, pig-tailed little girl who grew up in a fashionable district of Spokane, the oldest of seven children of a prosperous Irish lawyer. Kitty's homelife, according to Gerri Hirshey, was mean and hard. She did not get along well with her heavy-drinking mother, a strict disciplinarian who padlocked the family refrigerator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeeow! The Saga Of Kitty | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

There actually was a cute little pig on Maupiti. It lived in a pen behind Mama Roro's, and on the third day we were there it was served for dinner in honor of a son's wedding. Accompanied by a delicious sweet squash dish, it was the best meal I have ever eaten in my entire life...

Author: By Maggie S. Tucker, | Title: Fa-a-a From Paradise | 3/5/1991 | See Source »

...HANN WAS, after all, an ideal guinea pig on which to test the brand-new hate speech rules: his disorderly conduct supports the university's contention that he is unfit to remain, and his actions are so overtly bigoted that he has no popular support as a martyr. What seems clear is that Brown's Disciplinary Board, in making an example of Hann, punished him harshly because it wanted to prove the school's serious commitment to the hate speech code. The circumstances of his case made them feel they could do this with impunity. A fairer policy would have...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Even 'Hate' Speech Should Be Free | 2/16/1991 | See Source »

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