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...OFTEN IS FILMMAKING A matter of life and death? It was just that for Massimo Troisi, star of The Postman (Il Postino). Enfeebled by a heart condition, the Italian actor was able to work only an hour or two a day on his dream movie, whose story imagined a friendship between Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and a simple postman. Two cardiologists and an oxygen tent stood by on the set for Troisi, 41, who couldn't walk more than a few feet before sitting down. A high school gym teacher had to serve as his body double for more than...
Some questions from the audience of 200 were combative, but Postman handled them with good humor...
When one questioner posed a particularly abstract query to Postman about individuality, he responded "Are you talking...
...While cultural pluralism can be accommodated in a unifying American story, tribalism will end the public mind," Postman said...
...Postman expressed hope for the future of public schools and offered several possible guiding ideas...