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...another midcentury comedy genius, radio spieler Jean Shepherd; but her forte, when she got the chance to display it, was in elevated drama: as Blanche in a 1973 Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, and in her Emmy-winning role as Susan B. Anthony in The American Woman: Portraits of Courage...
...sentiment from Italian movies, Dino Risi, 91, provided robust entertainment in many genres. Among his 80-some features were 17 starring Vittorio Gassman, most prominently the cynical social fable Il Sorpasso / The Easy Life and the blind-officer-on-a-toot drama Profuma di Donna / Scent of a Woman, remade in Hollywood with Al Pacino. Risi's string of affairs with gorgeous actresses, including Anita Ekberg and Alida Valli, provides the answer to the question: Why do guys become directors...
...episode is an embarrassing, chilling reminder of the 1960s, when the town endured tumultuous Civil Rights protests, and was even known as the "Klan Capital" of the U.S. In recent weeks, national television cameras have swooped into town. One front-page Times-Picayune headline blared: "Change of heart doomed woman." Joe Culpepper, captain of Bogalusa's 39-member police force, says the whole ordeal "took us by surprise. We have our share of white trash up here. But the community has evolved past Klan-type behavior. Nobody is on that page anymore." Andre Johnson, one of two blacks...
...these: Someone placed an 18-karat-gold diamond ring in the Salvation Army kettle in Uniontown, Pa. A Sioux Falls, S.D., hotel manager came up with a plan to open his doors to 200 homeless people for Christmas. A Santa Clarita, Calif., family took in an 83-year-old woman left homeless by wildfires and helped rebuild her life. Food donations in Paradise, Calif., were up fivefold. "We'll take a cup of kindness yet," we sing as we welcome a new year, and never more so than this time. Maybe as times get worse, we get better. Our pain...
...event that makes them depressed or angry, they often become inconsolable or enraged. Such problems may be exacerbated by impulsive behaviors: overeating or substance abuse; suicide attempts; intentional self-injury. (The methods of self-harm that borderlines choose can be gruesomely creative. One psychologist told me of a woman who used fingernail clippers to pull off slivers of her skin...