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...blunt, explicit lines, but through the carefully directed actions of his characters. The film’s settings seem almost drawn onto the screen, taken directly out of a picture book. Bandini’s apartment, in particular—with only a barren palm tree visible through the window and a small desk and dirty bed—looks as though it was furnished for a live audience watching the opening scene of a play. Even with Towne’s substantial creativity, “Ask the Dust” would have crashed and burned without the solid...
...lawsuit in U.S. District Court, which raises all kinds of confounding questions about rights and choice and what we really mean by equality, when we look at the social and biological roles played by men and women in the course of becoming parents. Feit argues that within a short window of time after discovering an unplanned pregnancy - he has proposed a month, but thinks a week might even be more appropriate - a man should have the right to terminate his legal and financial obligations to the child. "I'm not talking about fathers opting out of obligations that they...
...shrinking window between the theatrical and DVD release of a movie...
...already arrived in some respects. Services such as MyYahoo let us collect on one page the latest headlines from a variety of news organizations and others. Using a technology called Really Simple Syndication (RSS), we can collect many different Web “feeds” into one browser window or stand-alone application. Then there are all the mailing lists, discussion groups, podcasts (audio files downloaded to digital devices), and videos, among many ways to be informed, entertained or otherwise diverted.Yet this is not enough, not when new sources of “content...
...enforcement officials say that pimps are using widely available movies to teach minors how to be prostitutes. The documentaries - available online and in video stores - explain the vocabulary and rules of pimping in the words of real people in the trade. Produced to give the public a window into an illegal and degrading business, the films are now serving the unintended function of instructing vulnerable juveniles how to work with a pimp and indoctrinating them into the world's oldest profession. "We see this across the board in terms of pimps using videos to glamorize and glorify the profession," says...