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...McGuinn, one of the first black students to attend Yale Law School. "I do not believe I would very cheerfully help a white student who would ask a benevolence of a stranger," Clemens wrote to the dean in the 1885 letter, which has been authenticated by Yale Scholar Shelley Fisher Fishkin. "But I do not feel so about the other color. We have ground the manhood out of them, & the shame is ours, not theirs; & we should pay for it." Like Huck, Clemens remained true to his word on important matters: he paid for McGuinn's board until...
...Fonda's workout tape--along with sequels like her Prime Time Workout and Workout Challenge--has inspired a horde of other celebrities to try getting Americans in shape via video. In Debbie Reynolds' Do It Debbie's Way, an exercise class sprinkled with familiar faces (Florence Henderson, Teri Garr, Shelley Winters) bends and stretches to big-band music while Debbie cracks jokes and offers encouragement. Considerably more demanding is Raquel Welch's Total Beauty and Fitness. The 44-year-old star folds her body into positions that will leave most of her viewers in awe. The macho Armed Forces Workout...
...Mary Shelley would be pleased-or would she? The author's redivivus creation, the Frankenstein monster, is back again for a new-wave horror movie that sounds like, but is not, a remake of The Bride of Frankenstein. It stars Rock Singer Sting, 33, as Baron Frankenstein, and Flashdance Star Jennifer Beals, 20, as Eva, whom the good doctor whips up in the lab as a mate for his born-again monster. "I thought it would be interesting to play someone who came back from the dead but was still very human," says Beals. Understandably, her character shuns Frank...
Albert Brodsky (Ryan O'Neal) and Lucy Van Patten (Shelley Long) "meet cute," in the traditional manner of romantic comedies. He is a film scholar hitchhiking to a job at UCLA. She's an aspiring writer who picks Albert up and marries him four days later. Little Casey (played by Drew Barrymore when she reaches dialogue age) and the career moves quickly follow. The film is at its knowing, uncynical best as it observes Albert parlaying his knowledge of movie trivia into a career as an authentic au-teur-especially of his own misery. Lucy, the girl...
...Lear recounts the title figure's rejection of his youngest daughter, Cordelia, and betrayal by his other two daughters, Goneril and Regan. An interrelated sub-plot tells how the bastard Edmund discredits his legitimate brother Edgar and claims the lands of their father, Duke of Gloucester. Simple stories, but Shelley called this play, "the most perfect specimen of dramatic poetry existing in the world...