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...from broadcasters, who point out that the networks have already adopted on-air advisories to alert parents to inappropriate programming. Says Lynn McReynolds, vice president of media affairs for the National Association of Broadcasters: "The V chip won't be able to tell the difference between Terminator 2 and Schindler's List. We have problems with any technology that makes a blanket judgment about programming...
...Gibson and Keanu Reeves. The latest is Ralph Fiennes, who stars in a production that has traveled from London's Almeida Theatre Company to Broadway. Fiennes, 32, is known primarily as a movie actor (he played the unforgettable chief villain -- in a world overrun by villainy -- of Schindler's List, and the fair-haired, clay-footed young scholar, Charles Van Doren, of Quiz Show), but his roots are in theater, and he handles Shakespeare's great role with a commanding blend of intelligence and ardor...
Novelists reveal themselves as performers, or shamans, or unloved children, or observers of bugs through microscopes. The Australian writer Thomas Keneally is a builder, a gifted, painstaking maker of books. After 20 novels, including Schindler's List and A Victim of the Aurora, a reader imagines him rummaging through his barn for old beams and bricks stored years before and never used. Stories, perhaps, told by his grandparents, who were storekeepers in Australia's Macleay River Valley. He sorts the tales, considers which can still bear weight, begins to sketch a plan for A River Town (Doubleday; 324 pages...
...Peebles begins using black-and-white segments to create the effect of documentary footage, a la "Schindler's List." By using real news clips in the film's opening scenes, then using fake news footage of his actors later to advance the plot, Van Peebles jeopardizes his credibility as an historian. Already treading a tightrope between fiction and reality, this method of "historicizing fiction" puts the viewer on guard. Although the fictional documentary footage is noncontroversial and works well as a device to sum up Panther activities, its contribution to the effect of a documentary is somewhat duplicitous...
...Schindler's List Is Not Shoah: Bilderverbot, Popular Modernism and Public Memory. Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, Carpenter Center, RoomB...