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...Which is far more than you can say over in Bush/Cheney territory, where you can practically hear the popping of arthritic joints. On the home page of the campaign web site, there's a button labeled "youth zone." Great! Outreach for new voters and college students, right? Not exactly. In fact, the "Youth Zone" is a charming and utterly irrelevant collection of stories for kindergartners: About the Bushes' cat, Ernie, about a brave policeman and his dog Gloria (read by Laura Bush) - and about why running for president is a lot like playing baseball (courtesy of the governor himself...
Mahler said shortly after pressing the button for her floor, the elevator went down "half a floor, stopped and jarred." She pressed the emergency telephone button, which she believed would connect her to Harvard's maintenance personnel, but the line was not working. Finally, the police officer freed her by using the elevator's exterior call button to return the elevator to the fourth floor...
...Movies that begin production later than early March will have trouble getting insured, because in the event of a July 1 actors' strike, a production would likely go unfinished. So studios have been hitting the fast-forward button to complete a year's worth of movies in six months. "The studios are ready for a strike,? says producer Dan Jinks ("American Beauty"). "They are putting so much money into development now and production in the spring that there'll be a de facto strike whether there's a strike...
Never trust anyone under 18, says this drama, which gives high school the full David E. Kelley (The Practice) treatment: big histrionics, big issues and more hot-button pushing than an attack ad. The overwrought pilot alone hits social promotion, desegregation, guns and student-teacher sex. For an encore, Kelley may have to blow up the school. The staff is well cast, especially Chi McBride, above, left, as a besieged principal and Fyvush Finkel as a charming crank. But in portraying its one-dimensional teens, a surly lot of vipers and nitwits, Boston needs remedial...
...LESBIANS. The characters become symbols, the plot grinds along, and, at some point, Joan Allen gets to deliver a speech - with swelling strings in the background - that can be neatly clipped and shown again on Oscar night. "Chutney Popcorn," an independent, low-budget affair, presents real people experiencing hot-button issues and not speechifying about them...