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...recent years Roth has found inspiration in history and sociology. Ira Ringold, in I Married a Communist, is a left-wing actor caught up in Joe McCarthy's '50s witch-hunts. The wrenching American Pastoral drew on the anarchy of the '60s and '70s. Swede Levov, glove manufacturer and good suburbanite, is devastated when his daughter becomes a fugitive terrorist...
...dilute the force of the term? Why is The Fox and the Hound a Disney Masterpiece? Whatever.) So, looking at those, you'll realize a common feature - the best Disney movies all have _female_ villains. Everyone remembers Cruela de Vil, the Wicked Queen in Snow White, Ursula the Sea Witch, Maleficent, Madame Medusa - but who remembers the fat guy in Pocohontas, the evil dude in The Aristocats, or any of the various gun-toting hunters? The truth is, the femme fatales are the nastiest, most memorable characters - kids have nightmares about them, adults actually see menace in their evil, they...
Such Lazarus acts, while rare, have become less so lately, with six networks looking for content. CBS picked up its hit JAG from NBC, and the WB just spirited off ABC's teen-witch com, Sabrina. (ABC's psych-ward drama, Wonderland, and on-hiatus Sports Night may also shop themselves around.) But Apatow admits the re-Freaking of TV is a long shot. "If anyone needs to fill an hour with NBC's lowest-rated show," he cracks, "they...
...sounds like Utopia, like Oz's Munchkinland after Dorothy squashed the wicked witch and everyone jumped up from hiding to do a dance. "People are turning out because of the Internet--they don't have to be mobilized," says Beck. One motivator, oddly, is nostalgia, an emotion that the Internet accelerates. Events in Seattle cast an afterglow that continues to spread in the retelling. Kelly Vaughan, 20, a senior at Chicago's DePaul University, recalls sitting at her computer last November poring over e-mail accounts of the frontline action. She instantly relayed the news to a list of about...
...chance came Wednesday night, at her friend Sister Jeanne O'Laughlin's Miami Beach home. Police cars lined streets; patrol boats cruised on the canal behind the house. Demonstrators shouted in Spanish that Reno was a witch. For 2 1/2 hours she talked with Elian, Lazaro, Marisleysis and their Miami handlers, as Elian moved from lap to lap. At one point during the negotiations, the boy even began playing with one of Reno's security people. "You know, we could solve this real quick," the agent reportedly said. "I could walk out of here with him right...