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Perhaps there is another Spy-Seagal similarity here. Both are adept at high- wire innuendo -- Spy as a key to its satirical japery, Seagal as a spur to his myth. If he did make these remarks, he may have intended them as macho provocations, as sick jokes or as acid tests -- the ultimate Spy prank...
Hollywood did not need a Body by Jake workout to get its movies into PG shape; it required no Marianne Williamson exhortation to spur it to reunite the nuclear family onscreen. The industry simply looked at the numbers. Family movies can be made cheaply and can reap deeply. "In addition to selling the ticket to the young child," says producer Scott Rudin (The Addams Family, Sister Act, Searching for Bobby Fischer), "you also sell tickets to five of his friends and three of their parents. For the same marketing dollar, the quantity of purchase is much higher. And kids...
...need the simplicity of Cat in the Hat to counterbalance "The Last Stand in Waco" and the Spur Posse's paid talk show appearances. Our generation is caught between the counterculture of the sixties and the Nintendo culture of the eighties, and we need all the help we can get to overcome our cultural schizophrenia...
Regardless, those of us who support lifting the ban should applaud his use of the Powell invitation to spur on the Faculty and student protesters, even if clever subterfug isn't really Rudenstine's game...
...spur of the moment," he says. "It was her spring break. Massachusetts requires a blood test, so the timing wouldn't have worked...