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For African American rape victims, a culture of silence
Times Staff WriterThere's an old saying in the African American community: Black women raise their daughters and love their sons. A legacy of the atrocities of slavery, it signifies a communal protectiveness of black men, from the coddling of toddling boys to a...Tags: Justice System, Iowa, Assault, Death, Children
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'Harry and Max'
![In recent years Christopher Munch has emerged as one of the most distinctive American independent filmmakers. He created a splash with his 60-minute dramatic vignette "The Hours and Times" (1992), in which he sensitively speculated what might have occurred between John Lennon and the Beatles' gay manager, Brian Epstein, during a brief interlude in Barcelona in 1963. He followed that with the feature-length "Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day" (1997), a remarkably evocative account of the struggle to bring rail travel to Yosemite, and then "The Sleepy Time Gal" (2001), in which Jacqueline Bisset gives the performance of a lifetime as a dying woman longing for contact with the daughter she gave up at birth — and having no way of knowing that the daughter (Martha Plimpton) similarly yearns to discover the identity of her birth mother.](http://www.calendarlive.com/media/thumbnails/story/2005-03/16845428.jpg "In recent years Christopher Munch has emerged as one of the most distinctive American independent filmmakers. He created a splash with his 60-minute dramatic vignette "The Hours and Times\" (1992), in which he sensitively speculated what might have occurred between John Lennon and the Beatles' gay manager, Brian Epstein, during a brief interlude in Barcelona in 1963. He followed that with the feature-length \"Color of a Brisk and Leaping Day\" (1997), a remarkably evocative account of the struggle to bring rail travel to Yosemite, and then \"The Sleepy Time Gal\" (2001), in which Jacqueline Bisset gives the performance of a lifetime as a dying woman longing for contact with the daughter she gave up at birth — and having no way of knowing that the daughter (Martha Plimpton) similarly yearns to discover the identity of her birth mother.")
Times Staff WriterIn recent years Christopher Munch has emerged as one of the most distinctive American independent filmmakers. He created a splash with his 60-minute dramatic vignette "The Hours and Times" (1992), in which he sensitively speculated what might have...Tags: Death, John Lennon, Minority Groups, Martha Plimpton, Cole Williams
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Same-Sex Union Cases to Be Heard
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterThe cases ultimately expected to reach the California Supreme Court and decide whether the state's gays and lesbians should be granted civil marriage rights will be heard today by a San Francisco Superior Court judge. At the heart of the consolidated...Tags: Massachusetts, Family, California, Bill Lockyer, Minority Groups
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Bliss
TIMES STAFF WRITERFriday June 6, 1997 "Bliss" is an earnest yet half-baked message movie about how the source of sexual dysfunction in marriage can be caused by a repressed memory of childhood incest. That this is obviously a very serious, tricky subject doesn't...Tags: David Cronenberg, David Lloyd, Movies, Sheryl Lee, Sexual Dysfunction
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Abortion Bias Seeps Into News
Times Staff WriterWhen reporter Susan Okie wrote on Page 1 of the Washington Post last year that advances in the treatment of premature babies could undermine support for the abortion-rights movement, she quickly heard from someone in the movement. "Her message was clear,...Tags: Abortion Issue, Newspaper and Magazine, U.S. Supreme Court, Arts and Culture, Christianity
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Priest
TIMES FILM CRITICFriday March 24, 1995 What are we to make of "Priest"? Created for British television, it arrives on American theatrical screens laden with all the plaudits an extensive tour of the world's festivals can bestow on it, from audience awards to...Tags: Movies, Miramax Films, Cinema Industry, Linus Roache, Minority Groups
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