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...world as you find it. In a TIME/CNN survey of graduating seniors in 13 high schools along Highway 50, very few of them sounded like Marilyn Manson (rock bogeyman). A few of them sounded like the Brady Bunch (holy innocents). A lot of them reminded us of Lisa Simpson (cartoon goddess--aware of life's shadows, inclined to make for the light). Three-fourths hold the sobering belief that we are pulling apart as a nation rather than coming together. But 81% said this is a good time to be starting out in life. Even more, 86%, thought their education...
Outside city limits, the name Roswell speaks to less tangible concerns. Like the black helicopters of the new world order or the racist-police conspiracy to frame O.J. Simpson, the Incident, as it is known, is either pretty sensational stuff or yet another of the ingenious tales those of us who mistrust mainstream institutions tell ourselves to help make sense of a scary, sometimes depressing world. In this case, it is a tale that combines deeply American strains of spirituality and paranoia as well as--let us be frank--a large scoop of native wackiness. One could even...
...they do for us," says Price of Hollywood. A handsome, weather-beaten man with surprisingly still, pale blue eyes, he has no apparent enmity toward Hollywood, even though he once got what sounds like the brush-off when he tried to persuade his second cousin, the late producer Don Simpson, to make a movie based on Roswell...
...form, the downfall of Oscar Wilde is still shocking. He was one of Britain's leading playwrights, wits and public figures of the 1890s. But after his homosexuality was exposed in three scandalous public trials, he wound up disgraced, impoverished, imprisoned and, a few years later, dead. O.J. Simpson just has a little more trouble finding foursomes...
...worked things out. "Don attended script meetings," says Tom Cruise, "but he wasn't on the set a lot. Jerry was always there when you wanted to get it done." B. stood by S. during the drug problems, but relations tensed. In 1995, after a doctor-screenwriter, ostensibly treating Simpson for substance abuse, died of an overdose in the producer's pool house, the partners agreed to divide the projects they had in the works...