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...39th birthday is only a week away. So to remedy her self-esteem problems, she decides to have a baby with anyone who is willing to impregnate her. Her good friend Brendan Boyle (Billy Meleady), a gay hair dresser, seems to be the most sensible choice, although choosing the worthiest father is apparently not Barbs' chief concern, since eventually the child's paternity will be called into question. Barbs is too selfish and flighty to be taken very seriously by the audience. Her angst is more the product of an impending mid-life crisis than of any serious problem...
Foster also produced the film, which surely would not have been made (not with this care and glamour, anyway) unless a powerful star had wanted it to be. It's the worthiest kind of vanity production, welcome in any movie season...
Sure, there's a real generation gap these days. It's reflected in the debate over which decade is worthiest of feeling nostalgic for. People of the '90s flee from the saggy current Zeitgeist toward some more wired, more meaningful time. The '60s and '70s have attracted big cults, but to true devotees of deja voodoo, the golden age was the '50s. Survivors of that era rise from their golf carts and shout, "We don't need no stinkin' Woodstock! And Watergate nostalgia is for wonks! Listen, pal, I was a teenage teenager. I want the '50s -- Ike, Mad, duck...
...public TV begins to seem redundant. Charlie Rose, the 1990s' Dick Cavett, conducts thoughtful interviews with members of the cultural elite every night on PBS. But with the actual Cavett doing the same thing on CNBC, Rose (who last week interviewed Sarah Jessica Parker) may not be America's worthiest recipient of federal subsidies...
...artists have carried on the tradition in the 20th century, with its predilection for spare, abstract, modernist forms. But of those who have, the worthiest successor to Parrhasius is muralist Richard Haas, 54. "Walls present some of the most interesting and challenging surfaces in an urban area," says Haas. "I look at them as large canvases for an artist to come and paint...