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Maybe Alan Rudolph should just plunk himself down in front of a video console, electronically colorize some old film noir favorite of his and forget it. Instead, the writer-director keeps trying to revitalize that shadowy, romantic style of the '40s by putting a hip spin on it. This strategy worked pretty well for him two years ago in Choose Me, shot in a surreal light and featuring a script that had the giddy loquacity of a liars' convention...
...voice fades, and the room begins to spin. The previous week, over-whelmed with laziness and desperation, I had turned in a ridiculous war story I'd written in eighth grade. Now it is coming back to haunt me like an illegitimate...
Accuracy in Academia--a spin-off of the rightist group, Accuracy in Media--owes its conception and its methods to principles that are dubious at best, dangerous at worst...
...sophisticated parlor games spiced with celebrities ($100,000 Pyramid), R-rated competitions between couples coaxed into revealing embarrassing personal secrets (The New Newlywed Game). But most of the new hits are an odd throwback to an era of simple games and conventional contestants. Wheel of Fortune, in which players spin a giant wheel to reveal letters in a hidden phrase, is a variation on the old word game Hangman. At least three current imitators feature similar fill-in-the- blank word games. A number of other shows depend on question-answer quizzes, exemplified by the challenging Jeopardy!, now a success...
...Berg get too much? Jordan too little? The arguments and counterarguments spin like windmills in a storm. Doctors charge that extravagantly punitive lawsuits are driving many from high-risk specialties; lawyers countercharge that patients need the right to sue because medical societies rarely drive out low-quality practitioners. If doctors cry that between 1980 and 1984 the average malpractice award jumped 63%, to $660,123, lawyers may retort that half of all awards made in that period were below an unchanging median sum of $200,000. The average annual charge for malpractice insurance coverage may have increased 79% between...