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...naive to believe that the media are having no effect on teens and tweens. But it's much more complicated than Tracey See, Tracey Do. In the aftermath of the Gloucester pregnancy spurt, some experts spoke of a Juno effect, girls getting pregnant to emulate that movie's protagonist. Local teens scoffed at this idea. "Pregnant celebrities are no big deal," says Ashley Hill, 16, a (not pregnant) senior at Gloucester High. "Most teenagers aren't dumb. They can tell the difference between fact and fiction." Studies support her: teens are less susceptible to media firestorms that galvanize the grownups...
Towelhead Written and directed by Alan Ball; rated R; out now Making the offensive funny is not easy. It's even harder when your protagonist is a 13-year-old girl, and your subjects are sex and race. Ball's film is as cringe-inducing as an after-school special but with a larky tone that invites the audience to feel complicit. One word...
Following four young women's dramas, shifting alliances and adventures in the L.A. glamour biz, The Hills (Season 4 starts Aug. 18; Seasons 1 through 3 are out on DVD) comes from a proud heritage of California teen soaps. We met the protagonist, Lauren Conrad, on MTV's high school reality soap Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After graduation, she was spun off to The Hills, moved to L.A., landed an internship at Teen Vogue and made new friends. There's frenemy Heidi Montag, with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt, the social-climbing Laddie Macbeth...
...Laughing wild certainly abounded in the hour-long Saturday matinee of readings from Beckett texts by Fiennes, Neeson, McGovern and Julianne Moore. Among the readings was a passage from the short story "The Expelled," published, like "First Love," in 1946. Its protagonist is a dour brute not far from the nameless necrophile in "First Love," and Fiennes again took the role. He describes walking down a city street when "I had to fling myself to the ground to avoid crushing a child. He was wearing a little harness, I remember, with little bells, he must have taken himself...
...American movies. Canet is much more rational in his handling of the sequence - just this lone guy dodging through the traffic, which naturally ends up in a nasty tangle, but not in a big time fireball. The result is a piece in which we retain our identification with the protagonist. It's a nightmare, all right, but always a plausible...