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...Town is about a tough corporate cookie who's been dispatched from Miami to a snowbound Minnesota town in order to downsize the workforce at a factory. Despite what you might think, it is not a reality show but rather a wish-fulfillment fantasy for our economic times: good old-fashioned American ingenuity will certainly save the day. As a bonus, someone's frosty heart is bound to be thawed in the process by a strapping Minnesowt...
...difficulty of getting usage rights to clips from the various films the awards are intended to skewer, he doesn't think a primetime Razzie Awards show will ever be possible. "There are some people in Hollywood who get the joke, but most just seem to hate it, and wish we would go away - which of course makes all this that much funnier," he says, noting that the Razzies are more a collective condemnation of a lazy industry than a poke at a handful of bad films. "For these movies to fail at this level, with these sorts of budgets...
That concert also showed, though, that you can't just wish acrimony away. There was an immediate controversy when a prayer by gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson was left off the HBO broadcast. There's a whole talk-show industry devoted to feeding those "stale political arguments." And we've seen overblown predictions before that events would ennoble American culture--see, again, 9/11...
...entire life. She endured harsh side effects from countless medications that did not work, multiple hospitalizations and shock treatments--all to no avail. Her deep spirituality was the only thing that kept her fragile relationships intact and prevented her from committing suicide. I applaud Marsha Linehan's methods and wish they had been used in my mother's case. It's too late for her, but I pray that future generations will benefit from Linehan's techniques and perhaps be spared the intense pain of this mystifying and debilitating disorder. Nancy Leggio, BROOKLYN...
...coming and what's going. But he's listening to you. So when you say, 'The U.S. Marine Corps Band is now advancing to the presidential reviewing stand,' he knows when to stand, when to sit, when to salute." And I said to him, "You know what? I wish you hadn't told me." [Laughs...