Word: seriality
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...series Party of Five, her character Julia is beset by such problems as a brother who may be dying and an adulterous husband, but she's always glowingly empathetic, never simply tragic. In the teen-horror flicks Scream and Scream 2, despite being pursued by psychos and serial killers, she exudes likability and warmth. And in her newest film, the sweaty, hormonal romp Wild Things, Campbell glistens with sincerity, even as her character is swept up in an unlikely swirl of perjury, murder and three-way sex. "[Neve] makes you care and empathize with her," says Bob Weinstein, co-chairman...
...other legal news: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday left intact a ruling that John Grisham's novel "The Chamber" did not infringe on a nonfiction work written by serial killer Ted Bundy's last lawyer, Polly Nelson. She had sued Grisham and Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, alleging the novel was too similar to her copyrighted book "Defending the Devil: My Story as Ted Bundy's Last Lawyer." A U.S. district court dismissed the case before it went to trial after an "exhaustive examination of both books" showed them to be substantially dissimilar. The decision was affirmed...
...kill the time. Newspapers offer up the new and different on a daily basis. Whether it's the latest dish on Monica's fetishes or a more sober update on Saddam's antics, the events and personalities amount to a collection of on-going stories, almost a serial novel, which one can follow with baited breath anew each morning. The missing element, however, is completion, an elusive goal at best, but a deep human longing nonetheless...
...presidency with more than its share of bad days. Within the hour they faced a parade of hyperventilating talk-show hosts clutching the Constitution and handicapping the prospect of impeachment proceedings; of psychologists explaining how to tell children that the President might be a liar and a serial philanderer; of network anchors jetting back from Havana, where they had thought maybe the big story of the week would occur; and of Clinton explaining that yes, the American people had a right to hear an answer about whether he had seduced an employee, but no, he wasn't ready to give...
...blooded killer. Read his writing." Kaczynski's brother David, who turned him in, claims that the government should have fully investigated his mental state, including interviewing the family, before deciding on the death penalty. The Justice official insisted that the defendant's mental state was considered but added, "Any serial killer is nuts. Does that mean they should all be spared the death penalty?" Prosecutors say Kaczynski has continually refused to be examined by their psychiatrists--and that such behavior is typical not so much of paranoid schizophrenics but of malingerers...