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...movie weaves its little stories into this big scene. A designer (Anouk Aimee) fights a takeover by a Texan (Lyle Lovett). A photographer (Stephen Rea) toys with three magazine editors (Linda Hunt, Sally Kellerman, Tracey Ullman). Two reporters (Tim Robbins and Julia Roberts in a nice little sketch) cover the story from their hotel bedroom. Two handsome Italians (Sophia Loren, Marcello Mastroianni) replay an old love affair. And a FAD-TV reporter (Kim Basinger) chirpily reports every outrage on the runways and in the salons...
...encounters a deadly, contemptuous young nihilist named Nechaev, who seems to live from child prostitution and who may have been Pavel's killer. Later, back in Pavel's rooming house, where he is staying, sleeping in Pavel's bed, wearing his stepson's unwashed clothes, Dostoyevsky begins to sketch the character who will be Nikolai Stavrogin, the world-hating, self-loathing young aristocrat who drives the action in Demons...
...STAR TREK FANS, THE MEMORY STILL HURTS. IT WAS A Saturday Night Live sketch eight years ago, and William Shatner -- the indomitable Captain James Tiberius Kirk from the original TV series -- was playing himself making a guest appearance at a Star Trek convention. After fielding a few dumb questions from the nerdy, trivia-obsessed fans, he suddenly exploded: "I'd just like to say Get a life, will you, people?! I mean, for crying out loud, it was just a TV show...
...matter that Shatner, in the sketch, quickly recanted, telling the crestfallen Trekkies that his outburst was, of course, a re-creation of "the evil Captain Kirk" from Episode 37. The put-down was like a phaser to the heart. Trekkies (or Trekkers, as many prefer to be called these days) have always existed in something of a parallel universe of TV viewing. They're the ones who can debate for hours the merits of the episode in which Mr. Spock mind-melded with a bloblike alien called the Horta, or the one where Captain Kirk time-traveled back...
...memories of the Stuart case, kept people from rejecting the possibility that the distraught mother was a suspect herself. And though she may not have thought about or cared how her self-serving concoctions would affect race relations around Union, South Carolina, the worst was avoided. Despite the police sketch of a black suspect that papered the area, feelings never boiled over and authorities weren't goaded into harassing the black community. The ploy of the dark-faced stranger works only when those around you share your worst assumptions. And this time, in this case, enough people were prepared...