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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WOODSTOCK '99 '99 version of boomer event was, like, so messed up, dude. Next, Lilith Fair PMS riots...
...discuss Minghella's adaptation of the Ripley book--how he has deepened it, enriched it, possibly distorted it--we'll be spilling a bean or two about the plot, which is, anyway, well known from the novel (published in 1955 and still in print) and a 1960 French film version, Rene Clement's Purple Noon (which is on video and was rereleased in U.S. theaters in 1996). You're welcome to see the new movie first--it should be on every naughty child's Christmas wish list. Then come back and we'll talk...
...parents and kids is the original "Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus," an editorial written by Francis P. Church for the New York Sun in 1897, in response to a doubting letter from Virginia O'Hanlon, 8. The essay is available at www.about.com and in an illustrated book version published by Delacorte Press...
...pick 10 "teams" each to compete in the B2B Rotisserie League, have crash-coursed the whole 1999 new-stock lineup. We make our mistakes with phony money and save the real deal for the portfolio. Our draft may have lacked the tension of the NFL's live ESPN version, but it turned up such gems as VerticalNet, VeriSign, Commerce One and Ariba, companies that until I had to lay out 750 Gs of Rotisserie money, I couldn't do much more than ogle from afar. And in the B2B league there's no team I have to lose money...
Sometime in the '60s, Susanna Kaysen was placed in an upscale psychiatric hospital. It appears from Girl, Interrupted, the book she wrote about the experience a couple of decades later, that she might have fared just as well as an outpatient. It appears from the movie version that we would have fared just as well if Hollywood had regarded the book as unadaptable...