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...story like this could easily have become TV-movie-of-the-week material; but it's a strong script, and even stronger acting, that carry this movie to great heights. Based on co-writer Angela Shelton's childhood memoirs, the screenplay is honest, emotionally charged and surprisingly intimate in what it reveals about the very strong bond between a mother and her daughter. Each scene is believable and completely organic; it's very easy to forget that you're not watching a real-life story unfold, and that the main duo aren't really related at all. Gavin O'Connor...
...said to be the most reproduced painting in history--but the corporate approach of Media Arts brings the argument to a new level. "I have an N.C. Wyeth hanging in my office that was a tire ad in 1916," says Scott Usher, president of Greenwich Workshop, a publisher in Shelton, Conn., "and very few art critics are going to say Wyeth was just an illustrator." Norman Rockwell battled the same demon, and Andy Warhol took heat for suggesting it was O.K. to have assistants do some of the work--a tactic several populist artists now use. Collectors such...
...Kosovo in 11 days, allied officials say it could take much longer. Some are worried that bands of departing Serbs will desert their military units and haul off after the returning Albanians. "It is not safe yet [for them] to go back in," said Joint Chiefs Chairman Hugh Shelton. It is still unclear how the refugees will react to the cease-fire. Many will have to be persuaded to go home. Says Sanha Rusihti, an ethnic Albanian living in a camp in Macedonia: "I'm scared of going in, even if NATO soldiers escort me by the hand." But others...
...fact, a ground movement--an offensive by the resurgent Kosovo Liberation Army in the past two weeks--played a key role in upping the pressure on Milosevic's army by forcing Serbian armor out into the open where it was vulnerable to allied attack. Says Army General Henry Shelton, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: "As [Milosevic] massed his forces to fight back, he set himself up for B-52 and B-1 bombing...
...couldn't get those choppers to war promptly and that the Pentagon was chicken to use them once they got there. Moreover, despite decades of chatter about fast, light forces, the U.S. Army still can't move a major fighting force quickly into place. That's a problem that Shelton, among others, wants fixed quickly...