Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defense lawyers quickly launched a legal assault against the new system. The result was chaos, with 158 federal judges declaring the arrangement unconstitutional and 116 ruling it to be proper. No one could tell what penalties would be imposed or whether they would stick. Moving briskly to end the confusion, the U.S. Supreme Court last week upheld the commission and its rules by a vote...
...worked for the state phone company, where he wrote the scripts for his first two pictures. He had no fear of leaping from phones to films: "When I wanted to become a director, I became a director." And his films have all the exuberance of somebody who wants to tell everything -- every one of the heart's dirty little secrets -- to his coterie audience. At the core, these are high-gloss melodramas with high comedy along the edges. They move like Roger Rabbit on speed, and so do the horny, drug-hyped, tortured, ironic, cartoonish creatures of his imagination...
...defiantly romantic, hipper than tomorrow and nostalgic for a pre-AIDS era when love's most toxic complication was a broken heart. "To classify movies is to impoverish them," he says. "Law of Desire was about a gay couple. But passion is the subject. I was trying to tell a love story...
Almodovar is in no hurry to move to Hollywood. "For now, I'm afraid," he says. "I'm not used to sharing decisions. But when I discover the story I want to tell in English, I will do so." That should be no problem for a self- confessed child with a huge imagination. "Cinema you can learn by yourself," he says. "But the stories must come from inside you. When I am writing something, I have the feeling that I am really reading something, and that I have to keep on writing to find out what is going to happen...
...Brown's best defense against the perception that he is "Jesse's man" is simply to tell people who he is and where he comes from. His life story, in addition to bearing witness to his own intellect, illustrates the keys to success that existed 30 years ago for a black born in the inner city: a neighborhood that included the middle class as well as the poor, a childhood filled with role models, a father who worked, schools that actually educated, and the leadership opportunities that ROTC and the Army offered...