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Michael Levine, Heston's publicist, believes the actor's outspokenness has damaged his career. "There's a reverse blacklist," he says. "It is far better in Hollywood to admit you're a drug addict than a conservative." But Heston, having just wrapped his 75th film, Gideon's Webb, shrugs off the concern. "People in the film community think being politically active means getting on Air Force One and going to dinner at the White House," he says. "I've scorned a few liberals in this town, and I get a kick out of that." Only six weeks ago, he called...
...overgrown boys, designed to appeal to the undergrown boys who are this movie's prime audience. The roughnecks immediately start squabbling with the fly-right NASA nerds--representing responsible, clueless adulthood--who must hurriedly train them for space flight, deliver them to their target on time and admit in the end that obstreperous irresponsibility has its uses. Stupid as this may sound, there's some fun in this conflict--maybe more than the tympanum-rupturing music and effects track allows you to hear...
...freely admit, a visitor--who doesn't even speak the language. I am a novice traveler. But consider one observation from my stay in the cosmopolitan city of Fukuoka...
...recent failure. Even prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most recent round of American-Japanese talks surrounding the falling yen. The New York Times reported that the two nations' leaders have two different conceptions of what change is necessary for financial problem solving...
Honestly, one of the reasons I came to Harvard was because of the financial aid policy. But I made that decision by comparing Harvard to other schools before they had improved their policies. Harvard has historically had a reputation of making sure that anyone they admit attends and continues to attend...