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...apartment dwellers with children, play space is at a premium. A dozen mothers, members of the West Hollywood Munchkins Play Group, convene three days a week in cramped West Hollywood Park. They unlock a wooden shed, pass out toys and warily eye the winos by the shuffleboard court and the gay men seeking casual sex around the shrubs and public toilet. "We complain to the police, and they arrest these perverts in the toilet," Abrams says. "Look, I don't care what they do, but I don't want it in front of my kid. We want a separate children...
...Hollywood, where such an ungodly premium is placed on making characters "sympathetic," it would be refreshing to report that To Live and Die In L.A. was a major film by an idiosyncratic filmmaker that cuts past conventional morality, but alas, the shallow characters here do little more than illustrate a theme that would have worked better perking just below the surface than splattered all over it. The film may keep you somewhere near the edge of your seat while you're watching it, and there's some good street-smart dialogue and acting, but everything here is subordinated to Friedkin...
...sitcomming of cable is partly a response to the industry's rough economic times. Cable's growth rate has slowed considerably in the past couple of years, owing in part to the proliferation of videocassettes, which offer new movies months before they appear on cable's premium channels. The two largest such channels, HBO and Showtime, actually posted a net loss in subscribers during the first half of 1985, the first such drop in their history. The solution, many pay-cable executives are deciding, is to supplement movies with original programming that can generate viewer loyalty. Translation: more series...
...response to a question from a mathematics graduate student who plans to become a teacher and wants to keep his students interested, Sandel said moral philosophy is easy to make interesting, because "it puts a premium on input and on arguments back and forth." But Sandel added, "I don't think you can do that with math...
...qualified young technocrats. Yet rebuilding the party remains an uphill struggle. Despite infusions of fresh blood, nearly half of its members have no more than an elementary education and at least 10% are illiterate. Many are unprepared to deal with directives from government and party headquarters that put a premium on efficiency and management skill...