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...beginning." If Balasko's fame is firmly founded on the humorously brusque characters she incarnated in films ranging from the 1978 satire Les Bronzés to the 2001 French version of Absolutely Fabulous, Berry says she's drawn to projects that weave mirth with serious and even sad themes. "That mix is more like life, and I find making that work harder than being exclusively funny or serious," Berry explains. "When it does work, I feel I'm proving myself as an actress." Now that Oued is in theaters, Berry has read for the lead role in an upcoming...
...number of the struggles-- personal, social and religious--that young gays face daily. As the head of a nonprofit organization that operates a nationwide suicide-prevention help line for gay and questioning youth, I hear stories of difficulties every day. And although some gains have been made, the sad reality is that suicide is the No. 3 killer of teenagers, and gay youths are more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual peers...
Although you stated that alternative rock is on its way to becoming extinct [MUSIC, Dec. 16], you failed to mention that this is in the context of the mainstream music industry. It is very sad to learn that MTV and record sales have become the only indicator of the popular-music scene. Believe it or not, alternative music is still out there and thriving in the subculture of youth. Stick your head out of the office and take a look around. Don't rely on the tube and a few statistics. NORA GRUBER San Diego
...sad fact is that foreign-language films no longer matter. Americans, absorbed in their junk culture, are shuttering a window to the rest of the movie world...
...condition of my abdomen.” Doctors suggested that swimming in the Danube River would assuage the pain of his chronic diarrhea, and that infusions of oil would soften the buzzing in his ears. “In all biography, there are few images more grotesquely sad than that of Beethoven, racked with cramps, bathing in fortified water and trying to drown the noise in his head with almond oil,” Morris writes...