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...resembles a spider. Or a crawling eye. Or a mummy. Its breath is foul, its eyes are mere holes, and its diet consists of human entrees. Pennywise's address is the sewers of Derry, Me., but the monster is only renting there. Its permanent home is a far stranger dwelling: the mind of Stephen Edwin King...
...GOTTA Have It follows in the noble independent film tradition that also includes Jim Jarmusch's Stranger Than Paradise. Like Stranger, the low budget heavily dictated the nature of the script, but it didn't dampen the spirit of the film. Filming in 11 days, with minimal sets (either Nola's boudoir or the streets of Brooklyn) and a small no-megastar cast, Lee made the most of what he had. And that includes a terribly talented family circle: his father, the esteemed jazz pianist/composer Bill Lee, furnished the splendid score as well as a nice cameo performance as father...
...suspense of this momentous occasion has been killing me," confessed Prince Charles, as he addressed a crowd of 18,000 last week after waiting through 105 minutes of learned perorations celebrating Harvard University's 350th anniversary. Not that H.R.H. had any reason to worry. No stranger to pomp and circumstance, Charles (B.A., Cambridge, 1970) was resplendent in his academic gown. He scored high marks with self-deprecating quips ("Have no fear, ladies and gentlemen. I am used to being regarded as an anachronism") and a serious speech, which he wrote himself, on the dangers of allowing the teaching of technology...
...taken in the presence of a witness. How much more intrusive can it be, how much more unreasonable can a search be, how much more a violation of one's fundamental personal rights can it be than to be forced to urinate in the presence of some silent, bureaucratic stranger...
...mother, whose 36-year-old playwright son "disappeared" in 1976 because three years earlier he had sublet his apartment to a stranger who turned out to be an alleged guerrilla, wrote in her diary: "For a mother, hope never dies...No matter how tired and disappointed, the will to fight increases with every defeat...