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...world concert tour after admitting addiction to legal painkillers. Several days before, he gave a taped deposition, played last week during a music-plagiarism suit, and the star's speech was vague, slurred, fretful and forgetful. Further questions are raised about the extensive plastic surgery performed by Dr. Steven Hoefflin, who has also worked on Michael's sisters, on the star's face and perhaps other parts of his body. Declares a rival plastic surgeon, Dr. Wallace Goodstein: "LaToya is mutilated. Hoefflin is a mirror of Michael and LaToya's character disorders. He has etched the abuse of their childhoods...
Social scientists, however, advise against hysteria. "While this kind of incident is every parent's worst nightmare, like most nightmares it's not likely to happen," says Steven Nagler of the Yale Child Studies Center. Adds Ernie Allen, president of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC): "There are going to be outrageous acts that even the most cautious of families will not be able to prevent." The specialists stress two things: there is little protection against kidnapper-murderers, but fortunately there are few of them. The vast majority (several hundred thousand a year) of child snatchings...
...York Film Critics Circle named Steven Spielberg's Holocaust epic Schindler's List Best Picture but somewhat perversely gave New Zealand-born Jane Campion the award for Best Director for The Piano. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association likewise divided its Best Picture and Best Director awards between the two. For its part, the National Board of Review named Schindler Best Picture but cited Martin Scorsese as Best Director for The Age of Innocence...
...Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List, which opened last week, has already provided the elevated downer of the decade. But wait, there's more. Trailing Schindler, and in the line of Doubtfire, is a trio of high-minded horror shows...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, John Goodman, Raphael Joa, Kin Wah Lam, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton