Word: soaping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...scene, from the film Secrets & Lies, is a vintage Mike Leigh moment--a whirl of comedy and soap opera, of bruising tenderness and bravura acting, with the immediacy of real life heightened into the craft of movie art. As Blethyn lets the waterworks flow, Leigh's camera holds on her and Jean-Baptiste for nearly eight purging minutes. Blethyn's heroic work won her the Best Actress prize this year at the Cannes Film Festival. And Secrets & Lies was named Best Film at Cannes. This week it opens the New York Film Festival and will have its premiere in other...
...most important grant awarded, hands down, was the $700 given to Harvard Radcliffe Television (HRTV), which will insure the continuation of the spellbinding, deep and meaningful series "Ivory Tower"--what would Harvard undergraduate life be without the soap opera? But the money will also allow HRTV to produce a variety of other shows, including "Crimson Edition" (a news show), "Survey Says" (a quiz show on Harvard lore), "The Common Room" (a comedy talk-show, like a cross between "Saturday Night Live" and "The Late Show"), "Great Performances" (a rebroadcast of various student performances) and "Yard Tales" (animated cartoons...
...Obsessive. Yes, we're all obsessive, but some are more obsessive than others. We're talking about the person who will call a house meeting at the first sign of soap scum in the bathroom. The one you'll see at midnight organizing his files. The one who will put up a list of chores and end up doing them all herself. The one who will get kicked out of the house by the second week...
...blames the rise of young criminal predators on a "moral poverty" born of negligent parenting, welfare dependency and too-easy divorce. And Bennett's ubiquity on talk shows and opinion pages drives the most lucrative division of his virtue empire, the 47 lectures he will deliver this year to soap manufacturers and other conventioneers for about...
...taker's badge and asked, "Hey, are you the Tommy Facenda who sang High School U.S.A.?") Bennett opposed the Vietnam War, but he respected the men who served there. He grew sickened by much of what he saw at Harvard: privileged youth skipping class to smoke dope and watch soap operas, and twisting the antiwar movement into an attack on America. Like another former Democrat, Ronald Reagan, Bennett thought less that he was turning right than that his party was turning crazy...