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Perhaps we are meant to be disturbed by the lengths to which people will go to shore up their free access to pay channels. Maybe we're even supposed to think that the trial being televised throughout the movie--apparently a mix of the O.J. Simpson and Menendez brothers trials--is some sort of sad commentary on our society...
...subtly that you're scarcely aware of them at first. Homer went to London in 1881 and then settled in the village of Cullercoats on the coast, near Newcastle. He painted the fisherfolk: the men, massive in their rain-slicked oilskins, and the women mending nets and waiting on shore. The distended shapes of windblown clothes give these already robust female figures a sculptural air: you feel the gale blowing their aprons into spinnakers. Homer had to have been looking at the Parthenon marbles in the British Museum, with their fluent drapery rippling across limbs and torso. Sometimes these shawled...
...nothing on the Rosie O'Donnell Show to upset the stomach--no ill-kempt yokels flaunting their unseemly moral transgressions ("Stripped at uncle's bachelor party"). O'Donnell has modeled her syndicated show, which was launched last week to winning ratings, partially after those of cozy entertainers Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin and Mike Douglas. "What I liked about Mike Douglas," O'Donnell says, "is that everyone who came on his show appeared to be his friend. No one looked nervous." And indeed, O'Donnell is anything but intimidating...
...time Lillian Hellman died, 12 years ago, she had done all that was humanly possible to shore up the public image she had laboriously fashioned for herself. Biographical details had been eliminated, anecdotes shellacked, letters burned--many of them after she had extracted them from their recipients. As America's most prominent woman playwright (The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes) and the author of various memoirs (Pentimento, Scoundrel Time), Hellman wanted the record closed, and on her terms...
...Kerrey, Nebraska Maverick, not Bob Kerrey, Party Guy. But the situation was grim. The Republicans already had a 53-47 advantage, with momentum on their side. In effect, General Daschle was asking Lieutenant Kerrey to take on a suicide mission. Kerrey's former longtime aide, Billy Shore, knows why his old boss signed up: "It's a take-that-hill kind of task...