Word: guilts
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This one came in with a funny smell: the perfume of illicit passion, domestic upheaval and smoldering guilt. (O.K., forget that last bit; we're in the postguilt age, at least in Hollywood and Washington.) Proof of Life, a romantic thriller with Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe, is coming out in the wake of the two stars' affair and the fracturing of Ryan's marriage to Dennis Quaid. The all-American blond is now a Jezebel, her cuddlings with Crowe sprayed across gossip-mag covers and on tabloid-tale TV shows. The eventual film looked destined to be remembered...
...soul mate and muse - he treated his first wife rather shabbily. The divorce settlement, while broadly in line with the conventions of the day, was not the act of a generous or gracious man. His laudable devotion to his second son, Sean, was partly in reaction to the guilt of his neglect of his first son, Julian. Though he was just starting to make amends with Julian, his murder took place before the reparations were that far along. Julian to this day bears the scars of the shortfall between intention and action that affects many parents...
...this is made up for by a series of scenes showing the four starring women sitting around the kitchen table, nursing their neuroses and trying to set their family right. During this time, Mary Ann outs Elizabeth as a lesbian, Nora tries to reform Mary Ann with elaborate guilt trips about motherhood and Elizabeth frantically searches for any household product that can give her a quick high. The current of hostility running between the three sisters is sharp and well done. Less convincing are the few sentimental moments, as the chemistry between Gail (Alex Cooley '02) and Elizabeth (Jessica Shapiro...
...deplore the use of the Fifth Amendment," Pusey said in a later statement of his support for the Corporation's decision in the Furry case. "But we do not regard the use of the constitutional safeguard as a confession of guilt...
...colorful analysis from the great novelist Carl Hiaasen. Our political correspondents and our photographers Brooks Kraft and Diana Walker documented what was happening behind the scenes with their candidates. Steve Lopez went on the road with Ralph Nader, while contributor Barbara Ehrenreich explained why she felt no guilt in voting...