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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woody. Ever since Woody Allen ran off with Mia Farrow's adopted daughter Soon-Yi, an icy frost has descended on the relationship between these two stars of the screen and former lovers. Mia even maliciously charged Woody with child molestation. Maybe Jackson can sort this whole mess out. After all, he did counsel the First Family in the aftermath of the President's infidelity. Mia, Woody, and even Soon-Yi, should gather with the good Reverend, join hands and see if they can't all forgive each other...

Author: By Noah Oppenheim, | Title: Another Cameo by the Reverend | 5/7/1999 | See Source »

...begin chattering at once: American society in the late '90s is a busy chat room set up for just this kind of thing (Oklahoma City, O.J.), with noisy experts on tap, interrupting one another from different quadrants of the screen. We round up the usual suspects--in the current case, our cretinous popular culture; the Internet, with its rancid cul-de-sacs; violent movies; idiot television; vicious rap; ubiquitous sex. One high school counselor cast a wide net on MSNBC: "It's all those things, ekcedra, ekcedra, ekcedra." The "ekcedra" includes adolescence itself, a form of temporary insanity that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Littleton Massacre: Coming to Clarity About Guns | 5/3/1999 | See Source »

Sometimes you think critics across the board have loved The Dream Life of Angels because it would be such a bummer for director Erick Zonca, a really nice, hardworking guy, if they didn't. The eminently decent Zonca has said that he'd wanted to make a big-screen feature since age 14, but he never felt he had the "cultural background" or the know-how. Cultural background?? How could anyone pan this guy? If only more directors had such tender misgivings...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Wings of Desire: Zonca Is A Good Guy | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

When the computer screen of Andrew G. Eil '02 froze late last Sunday night, he figured the troublesome PC was just acting up the way it always does...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chernobyl Virus Strikes Harvard Computers | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

...roommate, entryway-mates, and pre-froshwatched, he tried to restart his computer and gotonly a blank screen with the message, "Disk BootFailure," he said...

Author: By Robin M. Wasserman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Chernobyl Virus Strikes Harvard Computers | 4/28/1999 | See Source »

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