Word: shame
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Other characters seemed similarly underdeveloped, especially the frustrated scientist played by Wallis Sparks in the modern-day scenes. His prattling about his theories gets confusing, and though some sexual chemistry between him and Hannah is promised, it is never delivered. This is a shame, because Sparks has, to his credit, an engaging clarity, magnetism and blonde, shampoo-ad good looks, and he flounders a bit in this muddy role...
...example and through moral stories. Parents must place the welfare of their children ahead of material success and even marital happiness. Public figures and ordinary citizens alike should speak out on matters of right and wrong, but must make clear they don't mean to muzzle anyone. They should "shame" entertainment companies (including Time Warner, a favorite Bennett target) that they judge to be trafficking in rap-music lyrics that glorify rape and cop killing or in daytime TV shows that celebrate neo-Nazis and hookers...
...total win-lose game," he says. "I don't think anybody is going to have the dominant position in a network-centric world like they had in a desktop-centric world. I just cannot believe that." He pauses. "And I will tell you this: it will be a shame if they...
This is the world's busiest movie industry. In Bombay they call it Bollywood, and it puts Hollywood to shame: more than 700 films a year (roughly three times the number produced by the major Hollywood studios) in the nation's 16 official languages. Such actresses as Sridevi, Twinkle Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Karisma Kapoor and Chunky Pandey have their careers and private lives monitored by adoring fans with an intensity that Lana Turner would have envied. Bachchan, the God Is My Witness star who looks like a more dashing Jon Lovitz and puts a fierce majesty into his basso declarations...
...What a shame it was for the comics of the first decade of Saturday Night Live that there was ever such a thing as movies. First Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner and John Belushi proved their worth as sketch artists who could inhabit weird, endearing characters while running wild laps around them. Then they exiled themselves into big-screen junk where they looked forlorn and their talents were cramped. Ninety minutes of Doctor Detroit offered a lot less pure Aykroyd than five minutes of his Nixon on S.N.L...