Word: screening
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Parents would not be so upset if the sex and violence were confined to the screen and stereo. But our children are at risk in the real world. While the total population of teenagers is dwindling, the number of murders and rapes committed by juveniles is on the rise. Teenage pregnancy has reached epidemic proportions. To a degree, entertainment just reflects what is already going on in society. But isn't it possible that pop culture reinforces and perhaps amplifies bad behavior? There are many reasons for teenage crime, including poverty, family problems and psychological ills...
...mask, and Dumas's melodrama into classical tragedy. Every calculated audacity -- the hint of disintegration in the eyes, the dry little laugh exploding into a tubercular cough, the weight of a thoughtful passion that gives substance to every line of dialogue -- testifies to Garbo's acute, intuitive knowledge of screen acting, and it allows her to play Marguerite at high pitch and with perfect precision. At the end, as she dies reconciled with her lover, she is both a helpless child and a hoarse old woman, whispering pleas and forgiveness. No other actress could create such a performance...
...predator. Still, her withdrawal was a good and gracious career move. By refusing to make a comeback film, or star on a nighttime soap, or do a dentures commercial, Garbo kept her image and achievement indelible. She became the discreet curator of her own museum. On the screen of that museum a divine woman is whiplashed by fate, and we, her late-show subjects, sit in awe at the spectacle...
...just a cog in America's great art industry. He was a one-man cottage industry, occasionally directing his own scripts but more often writing and rewriting for hire. The filmography in William MacAdams' brisk biography of Hecht lists 143 movie projects, on 77 of which he got no screen credit. The list includes many of Hollywood's sassiest entertainments (Scarface, Twentieth Century, His Girl Friday), but neither MacAdams nor any other scholar can isolate Hecht's contribution to each of them. Only this can be said with assurance: Ben Hecht did not work on Citizen Kane, Dumbo or Reefer...
...fail to distinguish among students of different ages. Miller Brewing, for example, sponsors Friday afternoon beer bashes for 2,000 students at the University of Colorado in Boulder. Until local high schools complained that their students were tanking up at the free pours, university officials made little effort to screen participants...