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...soothe. "You always felt like someone was watching," recalls Banks, 53. When he became a father of three boys, he kept close watch and joined the neighborhood block association to help others. His strategy for keeping his children out of trouble: Stick close. "I went to school on PTA night. If there was no homework, I'd get on the phone to the teacher and ask why," he says. "If discipline was necessary, then I disciplined...
...never actually consummate their affair in this movie. A couple of kisses aside, they sin entirely in their heads, and then quite guiltily. One can easily imagine them as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during a country-club dance, or stealing glances across a crowded PTA meeting--and perhaps living to regret their caution...
...great romance that was played out there -- legend's ur-Triangle -- comes across as not much more consequential than suburban adultery: "One can easily imagine Guinevere and Lancelot as Gwen and Lance, furtively smooching on the 18th tee during a country-club dance, or stealing glances across a crowded PTA meeting." Still, Schickel admits, "the scenery is always pretty" and "every era has the right to reinvent the Arthurian legend according to its lights...
...Ryan is the modern mediator between the goddesses onscreen and the mortals in the theater seats. She's the star you could take home to Mom. With her tousled but well-scrubbed blondness, she looks as if she would be at ease in a law office or a pta car pool. Her suburban incandescence is warm, not scalding. Ryan is the low-calorie, '90s incarnation of celebrity: Star Lite...
...telling fact that parents in Brentwood, California, can contribute $78,000 to the school's booster club for added staff, while the pta in the same school can raise only $5,000 because it is forced to turn over 20% of its profit to disadvantaged children in other areas of Los Angeles. The pta president noted that some parents objected to turning over funds to poorer schools downtown. Obviously, these parents couldn't care less about helping provide glasses for needy youngsters who can't see the print in a textbook and medical care for still others...