Word: ritualization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...movie begins as things begin for recovering alcoholic Joe Cavanagh (Mullan), with the regular renewal and ritual therapy of an AA meeting (hence the title). Indulging in a sort of self-forgetting one might expect of someone with a blacked-out past, Joe throws himself into what he calls his family: coaching the local soccer team, a sorry lot of unemployables. Chance encounters and friend Liam lead Joe's path to intersect with social worker Sarah (Louise Goodall), who meets regularly with Liam, his wife and his "wean" (that's "child"; derived from "wee 'un"). Joe helps wallpaper Sarah...
...time off-stage to ensure all runs smoothly. Hankins, who reports at least five or six hours go into every hour lecture, says he doesn't want students to be bored, all the while cautioning that his course is not meant to be entertainment. Mendelsohn also undergoes a ritual of extensive preparation. He denies any stage fright before a lecture, but says he takes the lecture prep a step further to ensure that he feels truly energized when he faces the crowd. "I always take a half an hour before to get hyped up and get the adrenaline pumping...
...headlines on the Israeli papers Friday--the thick, multi-sectioned equivalent of the Sunday ritual back home--had tabloid fronts of the king in his kaffeyiah, the red-and-white checkers falling over the fold, and a young Jordanian boy kissing this official portrait on the streets of Amman. In the moments before the news blackout that is Shabbat here, the prime minister's office said all Israel wished well for the royal family; on Saturday, many synagogues included the king's name in the prayers for the sick. Sunday, when the king died, Israel was one of the first...
Lewinsky is trying to regain control. Last week her lawyers asked a judge to free her from Kenneth Starr's gag rule so she could go on TV for a ritual cleansing administered by Barbara Walters. MTV's Carson Daly would have been a much cooler choice...
...movie theater. Novice directors being slavishly courted by slick Hollywood agents. Must be time for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, Robert Redford's annual conclave--and open market--of independent cinema. Aside from the high-priced bidding wars over low-budget movies, a favorite festival ritual is the emergence of a relatively unknown actress as a genuine starlet, complete with fawning fans, attitude-heavy handlers and enough buzz to short-circuit her StarTAC...