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Haines was also gay, and he set a trend in Hollywood by living openly with his lover, Jimmie Shields. When the political waters changed around the early 1930s, Haines refused to play the studio "game"--to repudiate Jimmie, to enter into a sham marriage as so many other actors did, to pretend to be what he wasn't. And it is this that precipitated his early exit from the movies, around 1934. Now the biographer and journalist William J. Mann, fascinated by Haines's colorful rise and fall in the film world and his unique refusal to cave...
...child, but Hutchins argues that by giving Tranquility Bay the power to "restrain, control and detain" their son for a year, they effectively handed over custody of him, which, he says, California case law prohibits. Hutchins also contends that David's brief examination at Brightway was a sham and that his parents had already signed a yearlong contract with Tranquility...
...audience, certainly don't need the guilt Spielberg tries to foist upon someone, anyone, with this sequence, especially since the cruelty of the slave trade is never at issue in any of the trials. As soon as the Africans start having legal difficulties, the film shifts to make a sham out of the American judicial system. The very framework which winds up championing the Africans' cause with morality and persuasiveness is portrayed, in turn, as incompetent, overly bureaucratic and corrupt, to further sympathy for the Africans. The audience was so drowned in their white liberal guilt by the end that...
DIED. MARGUERITE HENRY, 95, creator of fiction's favored steeds--Misty of Chincoteague, Sham (of the Newbery Award-winning King of the Wind), Brighty and Black Gold; in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif...
...time once again, when the networks cravenly compete for eyeballs with a mind-numbing abundance of mini-series and specials. The point is to boost the NIELSEN RATINGS of their affiliates during this quarterly four-week period, when local stations set advertising rates. It's a bit of a sham for advertisers, whose rates are partly determined by such stunt scheduling. And now they're doing something about it. On discussion at next month's meeting of Nielsen's Customer Alliance, an advisory group that includes advertisers and affiliate reps, is "extended measurement." One form of it could triple...