Word: reckless
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...Francisco, the major homosexual characters are nearly all responsible public servants or saintly victims. Even Gaetan Dugas -- the Canadian flight attendant known as "Patient Zero," whom Shilts identified as a key early spreader of the disease -- is here simply a suave narcissist, not (as Shilts implies) an almost criminally reckless libertine who knowingly spread the disease...
...come only because Dateline is still "vulnerable" as a result of the GM fiasco. Even the threat of litigation was bad news for image-battered Dateline. Earlier this month, Utah's Orrin Hatch took to the floor of the U.S. Senate to denounce the show for its "false and reckless" claim, aired Aug. 3, that he had introduced legislation that would have benefited a firm in which he holds a financial interest. Dateline's producers say no retraction is forthcoming. But with the show's reputation still shaky at best, they have nonetheless assembled a 60- page defense of their...
...used to be that whenever Ted Turner announced he was launching or buying some new enterprise, the expert consensus was reflexively dubious -- Turner was profligate, driven by vanity, maybe reckless. But now that every one of his cable-TV channels -- TBS, CNN, TNT, the Cartoon Network -- has turned out to have been brilliant, the pack instinct among journalists and Wall Street touts has pretty much reversed itself. Now Ted Turner is infallible. When it was announced last week that his company would buy Castle Rock Entertainment, an A-list movie-production company, and New Line Cinema, a scrappy little quasi...
...matter. There is personality aplenty in Woo's editing and camera style. ! Here, you feel, is a moviemaker, a popular artist with an infectious joy in his craft. What Raimi calls Woo's "supercharged adrenaline" -- the reckless intelligence he applies to solving the most familiar action scenes -- is evident in each precise, superpotent frame. He could be a cleaner, leaner Sam Peckinpah, or Sergio Leone: the next generation. And in his best work, Woo is a critic and elegist of movie manhood. His Vietnam film, the amazing A Bullet in the Head, is an atrocity picture with a conscience...
That's fine, reckless advice for any person, any writer. The surprise is that McNally, 54, took his own dare. He is, after all, best known for the zippy romance Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (which became a movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Al Pacino) and the funny-poignant Lips Together, Teeth Apart (which is now playing in Los Angeles). Among his dozens of plays are daft farces (The Ritz, Bad Habits), an Emmy-winning TV play (Andre's Mother) and a clever sitcom (Mama Malone), but nothing so eloquent, capacious and true as A Perfect Ganesh...