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...kissed a boy in the eighth grade, I could already recite Humphrey Bogart's monologue to Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca. After a particularly heartrending breakup at age 16, I cried myself a cathartic river watching Cary Grant, waiting futilely for Deborah Kerr atop the Empire State Building, in "An Affair to Remember...
...bravura performance in the run-up to last November's elections, when her stumping and fund raising helped seal Senate victories for Boxer and New York's Charles Schumer, enhanced her star power. She has fully returned from the psychic sojourn that followed Clinton's August admission of his affair with Lewinsky. She exerts a strong influence behind the scenes, and her fingerprints were all over dozens of items in the President's budget, from a tax credit for stay-at-home moms to increased funds for research into childhood asthma...
...wanted to laugh derisively, of course, but the film somehow circumvented the part of my brain that controls critical judgment and beamed directly into the blubber lobe. My tears were compulsive, reflexive, the way I imagine tears to be for women when they watch female weepies like An Affair to Remember, in which Deborah Kerr can't meet Cary Grant at the Empire State Building because she's been hit by a car, or The English Patient, in which Kristin Scott Thomas can't meet Ralph Fiennes because she has died alone in a cave. I mean, women are drawn...
...What's the solution? Don't cut the program--turn it into a more substantive affair. There needs to be some sort of educational component to the show. Prepare the host to read the names of the groups appropriately (Halle Berry and Will Smith both butchered their pronunciation), and give the student performers a minute to describe the significance of their performance. Provide additional context about the performances in the brochure, and hand out information about each individual ethnic student organization at the food fair. At least that way we're making an effort to extend the discourse on difference...
What's the solution? Don't cut the program-turn it into a more substantive affair. There needs to be some sort of educational component to the show. Prepare the host to read the names of the groups appropriately (Halle Berry and Will Smith both butchered their pronunciation), and give the student performers a minute to describe the significance of their performance. Provide additional context about the performances in the brochure, and hand out information about each individual ethnic student organization at the food fair. At least that way we're making an effort to extend the discourse on difference...