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Rachel A. Pollack...
Dirty Harry is no complainer. He is genial with strangers, patient with the press. And in a movie-mad country where the names of directors like Sydney Pollack and Carl Dreyer appear on the tiles of France's favorite TV game show, La Roue de la Fortune, Eastwood the auteur is an imposing ambassador for American star quality. It so happens that the film he brought to Cannes, which he directed but does not appear in, is no great shakes. It meanders like a 2- hr. 43-min. sax solo by one of Parker's lesser disciples, and it never...
...there is a choice between the elderly and children," argues Alan Pifer, co-editor of Our Aging Society. "There are many other questions." The central issue, these experts agree, is how to protect those in society who are most vulnerable, regardless of age. "The 'intergenerational equity' debate," insists Ronald Pollack, executive director of the Villers Foundation, an advocacy group for the elderly, "is a diversionary and dangerous sideshow...
While his parents ended up raising artists, their house never spent much time discussing the subject. "It's not like we sat around discussing the merits of Jackson Pollack," he says...
...Disney Channel. Beyond that, will there be new dispatches from the Sidetrack Tap and the Chatterbox Cafe? "I need to let some air into Lake Wobegon," said Keillor. "That's one of the reasons for leaving the show." But, he says,"I owe a movie script to Sydney Pollack." The story will be set in Lake Wobegon, some decades in the past. Keillor knows the shape of the story he will do for Pollack, who directed Tootsie and Out of Africa: "There will be a wedding, and a funeral; that's clear...