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...getting at something that has long plagued Ellen, which sometimes feels like Seinfeld after a game of telephone. Although the show debuted three years ago in the Nielsens top five as These Friends of Mine, the sitcom has since stumbled through a number of cast, staff and time-slot changes, never quite jelling creatively, even by DeGeneres' estimation, and settling into the ratings' upper midrange. A major problem has been the indistinct character of Ellen Morgan, who seems to drift wackily through each show without ever offering much in the way of believable motivation, even in the elastic sense that...
...presence of independent films has finally reached the crescendo we have anticipated throughout the 90s. Rather than a single My Left Foot or The Crying Game to represent the Little Film, this year's oddball is Jerry Maguire, the only Hollywood project to earn a slot in the Picture race. The somnambulists who voted in featherweight tripe like Scent of a Woman and Field of Dreams are finally hibernating where they belong. As Shakespeare once apostrophized, "Studios, studios, where art thou, studios...
...That? Real Estate. It's fun. I just traded Amy's air rights in exchange for altering my TV networks' 9 o'clock slot." A bell rang. "Have to go now," she said. "Facials and colonics. Hope your next pictures gross well." Two of the youngsters slipped us scripts beneath the fence. Bingo. We knew we'd found our rustlers...
...believe so. Rather, Harvard students seem to have made a collective choice. We view it as safer to maintain a cut-throat edge at all times and so we have permanently locked ourselves into a defensive posture. Lowering our guard might mean certain death, or worse, a lower slot on the curve...
...been giving hospitals an incentive to hire more residents. We need to change that." Even with such a generous specialist detox program, Medicare will save $300 million by compensating the New York institutions in this way. Under the new system, participating hospitals will be credited for each residency slot they leave vacant, and will be encouraged to use those funds to hire more nurses and physician assistants or other medical staff to care for patients. Unlike agricultural subsidies, the new hospital fees are a limited program, ending by the seventh year. As bizarre as the program may seem, health care...