Word: cheap
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Things have been pretty slow lately. We've just been maintaining - on the news equivalent of small-dose methadone and cheap card tricks of "reality" like "The Blair Witch Project." At the end of summer 2000, we have exhausted even such idiot's delights as "Survivor." We push around the streets of big cities on tiny chrome scooters, like 10-year-olds, and argue about The Kiss, or about George W. Bush's I.Q.? "The Blair Witch Project" is out in video, so a few might go back to that.?(But the word I get is that that wasn...
Candidates have always tried to catch the other guy going negative as a pretext for going negative themselves. But now it seems that the party of John Wayne is becoming the party of John Tesh. Bush wails like a cheap car alarm over the most minor incursion--and attacks at the same time. Last Friday he was the first to unleash a frontal-attack ad. And for a year, he's laced every speech with rhetoric aimed at Gore's integrity and concluded most of those speeches with a pledge to "restore honor and integrity to the White House." What...
...trend has been building for a few years, since Scream (1996) indicated that cheesy teenpix could cross the $100 million hurdle. Last summer's American Pie and The Blair Witch Project accelerated the no-star momentum. The town's easiest profits come from cheap movies with low aspirations and performers who look as if they'd just been kidnapped from the junior prom. Meanwhile, a platinum-card holder like Jim Carrey stumbles slightly with Me, Myself & Irene ($89 million) and pratfalls with Man on the Moon ($35 million). Last August, Bruce Willis rode a big winner in The Sixth Sense...
TALK, TALK, TALK Forget about talk being cheap. Helen Fitzgerald, the author of The Grieving Teen: A Guide for Teenagers and Their Friends (Fireside), believes talk is golden for an adolescent who has suffered a loss. "Talk, talk, talk," Fitzgerald advises teens. "Talk it out of your system. Find people you can talk to about what has happened. Be together. Don't isolate yourself from the love and caring of family and friends." Fitzgerald writes from experience. Her first husband died suddenly, leaving her with four children, two of them teens. She went on to become a pioneer in setting...
...Demographers now say the advent, in sheer numbers, of minorities in general and Latinos in particular, will take place mostly where it always has: on the coasts, on the borders, and in urban centers where cheap labor and ethnic diversity is most welcomed. Just as California leads America, Los Angeles - mottled population, rich white minority - may be the future of places like the urban centers of the Northeast, Florida, Texas and Washington...