Word: young
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September, the chunky young auteur faced a packed house at the Toronto Film Festival and smiled. "We're here tonight," Kevin Smith said, "and lightning has not struck the building. So I guess it's O.K. with the Lord." Smith, 29, had endured a rough six months, ever since the Catholic League, a lay group with 350,000 members and an intimidating letterhead, had pressured the Walt Disney Co. and its subsidiary Miramax Films to drop Dogma, Smith's rambunctious comedy about God, faith and a monster made of poop. Smith was able to make his movie freely...
Sometimes my main characters are men," he says, "and the script is written from their masculinity--a very testicular movie. But I do prefer to work with women. Maybe that's because when I was young, I was surrounded by strong women, real fighters. This was in La Mancha, a very machista and conservative region. There, the man is a king sitting on his throne. And the women are like the prime minister; they are the ones who govern the house, resolve the problems...
...GRAND PRIX, SPAIN. Two villages, led by their mayor and a star, compete, in costume, in games such as retrieving a fake nugget from an obstacle course without being tossed by a young bull. (Discovery...
That tour de force was followed by Sena Naslund's Ahab's Wife, in which young Una Spencer goes to sea disguised as a boy and eventually encounters Melville's legendary whaling captain. Marriage and a child follow before Ahab goes off to chase Moby Dick and Una becomes a freethinker, abolitionist and, in time, Ishmael's significant other...
...girls and boys mature are a common pattern in tribal societies, in which everyone knows everyone else and sexuality is taken in stride. So are sexual practices designed to avoid pregnancy, and a lack of desire to spend time with one's partner to the exclusion of other young people--just as at Webster Groves. Dating is a modern invention, which makes sense only among large groups of people who do not know each other very well and/or denounce premarital "experimentation." MARK VORONTZOV Brookline, Mass...