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...motives to murder Polk. It is possible they did not kill him. But they did attempt to frame the communists. Ineptly and tirelessly, the descendants of Socrates neglected to ask fundamental questions. Why, for example, would the reds silence an American journalist who not only made their enemies squirm but could also be used to report their side of the war? Under increasing pressure, the police eventually provided a scapegoat. A confession was tortured out of him; he was found guilty of complicity in Polk's death and given a life sentence. He was released in 1961, five years after...
There were few black faces on the big screen back in the 1940s, when young Morgan Freeman collected soda bottles to pay his way into the local movie matinee. And the one or two who did appear made the young moviegoer squirm. He did not object to their playing servants, jobs his own parents had occasionally held, but it bothered him that these celluloid domestics were presented as empty caricatures, devoid of human dignity. "I didn't know anybody who acted like that," recalls Freeman...
That laudable message has brought the show enthusiastic praise from mental- health experts and TV critics alike. It takes a real grouch to offer a dissent. But even nongrouches may squirm at the sugarcoating this subject has received. Except for a few taunting schoolmates, Corky is drenched in love and support. Life Goes On may have the highest hug-a-minute ratio of any show in TV history. His parents (Bill Smitrovich and Patti LuPone) are unfailingly wise and patient. Only his blunt younger sister (Kellie Martin) worries occasionally about being embarrassed by her brother in school...
...honest answer, which both surprises me and makes me squirm, is that to some degree Bennett and Co. are right. My generation, with its all too facile distinctions between soft drugs (marijuana, mild hallucinogens) and hard drugs (heroin and now crack), does share responsibility for creating an environment that legitimized and even, until recently, lionized the cocaine culture. This wink-and-a-nod acceptance, this implicit endorsement of illicit thrills, has been a continuing motif in movies, late-night television and rock music. My personal life may rarely intersect with impoverished drug addicts, but the entertainment media created...
...woman share secrets, make each other laugh and squirm. What a novel idea for a movie! Two funny, poignant movies: sex, lies, and videotape and When Harry Met Sally...