Word: sugarcoat
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...Francis Coppola's Apocalypse Now Redux, the Flick Filosopher even mentions having shopped a script unsuccessfully to Coppola's company. Drew McWeeny, an aspiring screenwriter who reviews for AintItCool as "Moriarty," insists that although he too is trying to sell the studios his work, "I'm not going to sugarcoat my reviews" of studio releases. All the same, conflict-of-interest rules and editors to enforce them provide safeguards so that readers don't have to rely on the promises of writers that they play fair...
...McWeeny is also a screenwriter. (Knowles? site took some heat last year after it praised his scripts without divulging that they were written by a contributor.) Can anyone objectively review films made by those who might employ him? "I?m not going to sugarcoat my reviews," McWeeny avers. But they are already pretty sweet. In his last five columns, he reviewed five films, a TV cartoon and a website. The verdicts: six raves ("Ocean?s Eleven," the "American Werewolf in London site, "The Others," "El Celo," "Heart of the Warrior" and TV?s "Samurai Jack") and one fave...
...satisfy the voyeuristic impulses of a morbidly curious public. Perhaps there's simply some bureaucratic sense of duty to record the minutiae of a condemned person's last day on earth. Or perhaps our culture has evolved this ritual of the ? la carte last meal to sugarcoat what remains a grim act of violence by the state to redress a previous wrong. After all, in some countries, a condemned man's last meal is whatever the prison kitchen happens to be serving that day, and death is by firing squad rather than the lethal injection ritual that gives...
...incident-I might say things because I tend to shoot from the hip and maybe he took it too hard. I'm a New Yorker and I don't like beating around the bush. I'll just say what I want to say and I won't sugarcoat it. But I'm not snobby, I'm just direct. Wow, I can't believe he said that...
Your managing editor's explanation of why TIME chose to do the story was as insightful an analysis of the situation as I've seen: "This story is not so much about kids seeking glory as it is about grownups not looking and seeing, about people who preferred to sugarcoat rather than confront reality." There's no doubt we are all now looking, but as these tragedies continue, it's obvious that most of us still aren't seeing. ROB DONAHUE Evanston...