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...Gene Kelly were around today (he died in 1996), he might find this poignant. What is the most popular movie genre in the world today? Not melodrama or comedy or horror or teen pop-star showcases. Correct answer: the musical...
...penalty in this case. To make matters worse, Williams was only 17 when he committed the crime. People under 18 are called “minors” for a reason—they don’t have the maturity to be tried as adults, regardless of the horror of their crime...
...cheated out of a gold medal by dicey judging. In other words, no one had died--a huge relief. But try telling that to my Canadian mother-in-law. She called every hour for the rest of the evening, breathless with news of scandal and skulduggery. The unfairness! The horror! Her outrage was infectious. When I sat down to watch the Olympics the next night, I felt excitable too and strangely absorbed--not only by the skating controversy but by the Games in general. I was hooked. In a way that I hadn't foreseen when I had turned...
...HORROR SHOW At a refugee center for widows of men lost in the massacre at Srebrenica, Bosnian Muslim Fatima Begovic, whose husband and sons died there, sobs as she watches Slobodan Milosevic defend himself at his trial for crimes against humanity--the first ever for a head of state. The former Yugoslav President, accused of directing the genocide of 300,000 non-Serbs and driving millions from their homelands, scornfully blamed NATO and claimed he was the real victim. "It is all lies," he fumed. "The real crime was the killing of Yugoslavia and crucifying...
...This ambiguity towards death and immortality follows a well-established literary precedent. And this tradition, considered collectively, can help illuminate the elemental cloudiness necessarily pervading any attempt to come to grips with the meaning of someone like Aaliyah’s early demise. On the surface, there is palpable horror and profound sadness at any death of a young person with so much potential. Sometimes, though, if we are honest with ourselves, we may have the fortitude to resist the seemingly inevitable inertia ushering us towards unqualified despair. A.E. Housman found such a vision in his timeless...