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...reported two scenarios, both of which make for titillating TV-movie fodder. The Jackson version: that he showered the family with love and money and the mother went to the authorities only when he stopped sending her checks. The accuser's side: that Jackson had not only abused the boy but had also kept the family imprisoned at Neverland--had effectively kidnapped them...
...sorry. Please don't be mad at me." Jackson is still, everyone agrees, the world's oldest child star. If he could forgive and love the father who abused him, could he not forgive himself for bonding with the children who came into his Neverland bed? Could this lost boy even understand the difference between hugging and fondling, affection and assault, generosity and lechery...
This isn't mere debunking. Tobias Wolff, the admired author of the memoirs This Boy's Life and In Pharaoh's Army, plus several books of short stories, makes his grownup narrator a writer very like himself and brings him to a complex, loving reconciliation with his old school despite its flaws. Writing, Wolff suggests, can teach you not only a measure of self-knowledge but also the ability to open yourself to an imperfect world. "The life that produces writing can't be written about," the narrator maintains. But in Old School Wolff gives it a very good shot...
...With Crowe you see a conflicted cop, a sensitive gay plumber, a fragile genius; with others, you see an actor playing a role. I respect Crowe's tenacity in staying true to himself. Because he won't play the fame game, he has been assigned a persona: arrogant bad boy. Your story unfairly perpetuated that image, leaving out instances of Crowe's generosity, loyalty and zest for life. Crowe is rugged, rebellious and tender. His complexity makes his roles mesmerizing and accessible to all. RHONDA PETERSON New York City...
...Donnell, who calls his partnership with Meehan "an arranged marriage but happily a loving one," is similarly inclined to repeat their Hairspray success. The two men have completed an outline for a musical based on Waters' Cry-Baby, a 1990 film starring Johnny Depp as a bad boy wooing a good girl. Other possibilities for the writing team: a musical version of The Addams Family film and a film version of the musical Hairspray...