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Dorothy Q. Thomas, a 1995 Bunting Institute Peace Fellow, won one of the this year's 29 MacArthur Foundation "genius grants" yesterday. Thomas is an international women's rights activist and founded the Women's Rights Project of Human Rights Watch...
...such lofty ambitions. It takes its audience on a familiar ride. Actors pretend to be heroes or villains doing amazing or funny things. And we, in an implied compact with the filmmakers, pretend it's real. In The Truman Show the rules are more complicated. We are watching a movie that purports to be a TV show and that we (along with everyone else but Truman) know is fake. Occasionally we watch "viewers" of the show, in their home or a bar, reacting to some dramatic moment. And at times we watch Christof and his crew directing the show. Weir...
...drama is in the antidrama, the visual geniality of Seahaven. It's a Disneyland dream of cheer and rectitude. The film's light is soothing, beckoning--a near life experience. Its cool glow is so infusive you may feel you're getting a gentle tan as you watch the film. This could be a spiffy updating of TV's first great Springfield--the setting for that archetypal '50s idyll Father Knows Best--rather than the wildly twisted suburbia of Homer Simpson or the Armageddon-arsenal Springfield of Kip Kinkel. The only weapon flaunted in The Truman Show is a dicer...
...from the apartment where Shawn's wife and boys lived. Cecille would not give her husband a divorce, Ross says, and he would not unilaterally leave the marriage. So Shawn shuttled between residences, eating nearly all his meals with Ross, checking in at home, rejoining Ross in time to watch the late news together, and then returning home to sleep next to a private phone on which he and Ross conversed...
...which will be very familiar to connoisseurs of the Microsoft case. Arquit says to watch how Intel has steadily integrated more functions into the chip, in much the same way Redmond has glued more and more functions into Windows. Unlike Microsoft, however, Intel is trying its level best to head off a lawsuit. Washington, one government source says, has been "swarming with Intel lawyers...