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...canny and generally successful appeal to the youth market, this film streamlines Henry James's notoriously dense novel, bringing its melodramatic and erotic undertones to the forefront. A well-bred but dowerless English girl (Helena Bonham-Carter), secretly engaged to an equally impecunious journalist (Linus Roache), persuades her lover to court a young American heiress dying of TB (Alison Elliott). The plot thickens as the three take a pleasure trip to Venice. The scenes in Italy are lovely, and the three stars give superb performances--esp. Bonham-Carter, who brilliantly captures the complexities of her character. --Lynn...
...Grove, the right thing after the war was to try to fulfill his parents' dream--his father, somehow, had survived the Eastern front--of his getting into college. Science was not his first passion. At 14 he joined a local youth newspaper and fell hard for the joys of journalism: writing, thinking, exploring. "I loved it," he recalls--until a relative was detained without trial and Grove became persona non grata at the paper. Nearly 40 years later he wrote, "I did not want a profession in which a totally subjective evaluation, easily colored by political considerations, could decide...
Although something in his character allowed him to mend his ways, Cory likes to credit Youth Force with giving him new direction. "It's a place where you can dream," says Cory. "There are things that you never thought possible that you can do. I'm only 17, yet I'm having meetings with lawyers and the probation department. Windows of opportunity have opened up to me. And I can use my past experiences to help younger youth not fall like...
...first thing you really learn as a cop is how to lie," says Blondie. For many officers, their first taste of shading the truth involves car stops. "Now, say you see some guy driving who you think is wrong," says Blondie ("wrong" in his lexicon invariably means a black youth in a late-model car). "You stop him on no basis that could stand up in court. So you lie if you have to. You say he ran a stop sign or didn't signal or had a broken taillight that you break after you've determined...
...chairman of America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth, I see angels enthroned and devils lurking every day that I deal with this country's young people. I never cease to be amazed at how little it takes to turn one into the other. In a land as richly blessed as ours, it is indeed tragic to reflect that for want of a little guidance and encouragement, a child may drop out of school, turn to drugs or crime, or create new life before he or she is mature enough to assume the responsibilities of parenthood. Yet as many...