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...tiger that was kept in a New York City apartment and the mauling of Las Vegas showman Roy Horn, people are finally understanding that wild animals belong in their natural environments. People who travel to Africa can see these beautiful animals in their own territory. The only thing sadder than a wild animal in captivity is one trained to perform for our entertainment. PATTI BREITMAN Fairfax, Calif...
...liberals. Peter Steinfels' A People Adrift (Simon & Schuster; 392 pages,) and David Gibson's The Coming Catholic Church (HarperSanFrancisco; 350 pages) are both thoughtful, moderate in their judgments and worried. "If the church does not change," says Gibson, "Catholicism will hardly disappear. But it will face the sadder fate of a slow-motion enervation...
These inventions would never come to be, and that was probably for the best. Nothing is more shimmeringly beautiful than the next big thing in our imagination; nothing is sadder than the next big thing become reality. Remember "Ginger"? The much buzzed-about transportation device was supposed to revolutionize society and change how cities were built. Was it a jet pack? A teleporter? No, it was the Segway scooter, a goofily innocuous machine that seems to have been designed solely so George W. Bush could tumble off one, as he did this summer in Maine. From dreams of rocket...
...genre usually dictate that the boy will ultimately reform. The considerable originality of The Emperor's Club (directed by Michael Hoffman) lies in the fact that the kid gets worse, not better, going on to sleazy dotcom millions and, of course, politics. This leaves the prissily played Hundert sadder and wiser. But it still may leave viewers emotionally disconnected from this distinctly unchipper Mr. Chips. --By Richard Schickel...
...problem with many Hollywood biopics is that they assume the audience cares about celebrities as people. They wallow in sad childhoods, sadder marriages--blah, blah, boring, boring--forgetting that we love stars for their artfully fabricated personas. We like our celebrities to be celebrities, thank you very much. If they wanted to be real people, they should have gone into retail...