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...grade school. It's your first kiss--that's a nervous thing, you know? That's what's so exciting about this, to be able to show the whole process of coming out for the first time." She's right--much of the episode mines a rich new comic vein for the series. And in this case, DeGeneres' desire for truthfulness--and for keeping her show's focus off dating, gay or straight ("Mary Richards didn't date that much," she points out)--fits well with Touchstone's and ABC's that the show proceed cautiously. "Ellen won't become...
...category is a good place to start, in part because it shows how far the Academy has come. In previous years, Mary Tyler Moore would have cinched a nomination just for skewering her sunny image and sporting a Wonderbra in three scenes of Flirting With Disaster. In the same vein, lovable Marion Ross of Happy Days couldn't have missed for wearing age make-up and dying suddenly in The Evening Star. No dice, ladies. Instead, this year's voters went for Jean-Baptiste, an unknown first-timer in a tricky, understated ensemble turn. Allen and Hershey have higher profiles...
DOES MICHAEL KINSLEY KNOW ABOUT THIS? Since 1839, a mineral vein along the Vermont-New York border has furnished slate for thousands of roofs, including that of the White House. The Slate Valley Museum in Granville, New York, documents the quarry region...
...might say that shows in Star Wars' comic-book derivativeness). After an initial burst of inspiration, writing the screenplay for Star Wars became an almost "academic" exercise in refashioning ancient myths for modern audiences (at the time--no surprise--he was reading a lot of Joseph Campbell). In this vein, Lucas' most memorable invention was his notion of the Force--"an energy field created by all living things," as Obi-Wan Kenobi puts it. "It's a distillation of a lot of mythological religious teachings," Lucas says. "Not that I'm promoting a particular idea or anything. I believe...
Perhaps the greatest triumph of this production was that it succeeds in vitalizing a play considered by many critics as evidence that Shakespeare had exhausted the tragic vein. Coriolanus is about violence, power, politics, and pain, themes that are just as relevant to our 20th century America as they were to Shakespeare's Elizabethan England and to Ancient Rome. Carefully conceived and performed, Olson made Coriolanus feel like it was written yesterday. For a play that is almost 400 years old, there is no higher mark of success...