She was a true peach. Former Miss Georgia, first runner-up in the Miss America Pageant, Dale Chastain had parlayed her looks, talent, and brains into an education and the job of her dreams—movie reviewer for WNBS-TV Chicago. And he was Sloane Avery, the brilliant critic whose daily column she read avidly, who?e work she revered. But the man himself was another matter. He managed to insult her in private, then attacked her in print. Little did Dale realize that behind the sharp-tongued, cynical, unkempt critic lurked a shy, lonely man in love, a man who would patiently transform himself from frog to prince for her sake. From the Windy City to an embattled English movie set and back, he would astonish her with his tender passion, amaze her with his newfound "style!'But could he really accept that she was beautiful and brainy? If she returned his love, could he believe she really cared?

While much research into television has been historical, textual, or empirical, this volume approaches the topic from a sociocultural and feminist perspective, to address important questions from the viewpoint of the audience as well as from that of the industry. The contributors examine the ways in which the television industry seeks to deliver a female audience to its advertisers while inserting itself into women's lives, both at home and in the marketplace - hence the concept of a private screening in which the outside media world is brought into the personal space. The volume analyzes how television delivers "consumption" to its female audience by displaying commodities and lifestyles that attempt to engender an idealized sense of community and how audiences understand television programming and how these programs construct definitions of "femininity".

To mark the centennial of the birth of the cinema, the American Film Institute asked men and women in the movie industry today to share their most formative experiences of the movies. Personalities such as Tom Hanks, Angela Lansbury, Tony Curtis, Beau Bridges and others recall their favorite moment in film that sparked their own enchantment with the medium. 350 full-color and b&w photos.

The American Film Institute asked a select group of the most important men and women working in the movie industry today to share the single movie moment -- a scene, sequence, phrase, gesture, shot -- that most profoundly moved them, influenced them, and shaped their careers. The result is a uniquely insightful document in which personalities as diverse as Tom Hanks, Jodie Foster, Kirk Douglas, Alec Baldwin, Milos Forman, Angela Lansbury, Robert Redford, and others open to us their cinematic hearts and minds. Here is an opportunity to read personal and creative epiphanies experienced in the shared privacy of a darkened movie theater. B&W movie stills.

Inside information about the Hollywood major studios' secret strategies for marketing films.

Screening is the routine testing of populations to identify individuals who may have a particular medical condition or disease. It is carried out by both government and private organisations with the aims of: better prognosis/outcome for individuals; to protect society from contagious disease; to allow rational allocation of resources; to allow selection of healthy individuals; and for research purposes. About £500 million is spent on screening each year in Britain alone, and it is an issue that has relevance in health systems and for the general public and media. For many years, screening was practised without debate, but in the 1960s serious challenges were raised about standard screening procedures. Benefits of screening must be judged against negative side-effects, and concern was raised about potential and actual harm arising when people without a health problem received dangerous and unnecessary investigations and treatments as a result of 'routine' screening tests. Controversy raged and only now 50 years later, is there widespread recognition that quality assured service delivery and proper consumer information are essential. In addition to debate over health risks, the cost-effectiveness of such results also has to be considered, making this a highly contested issue. This book serves as a non-technical, introductory guide to all aspects of screening. The first section deals with concepts, methodology and evidence, explaining what screening is and how to evaluate it. The second section describes practical management, for example how to make policy and how to deliver it to a high quality. It includes many examples and case histories, a glossary to make medical terms accessible to the non-medic, and each chapter concludes with a summary and self-test questions. Although reference is made to the UK NHS, a world leader in screening, the book remains internationally relevant as the principles, knowledge and skills of screening are applicable in any setting. The controversies, paradoxes, uncertainties and ethical dilemmas of screening are explained in a balanced way. Muir Gray and Angela Raffle have been at the forefront of achieving improvements in screening over recent years, and they bring their wealth of experience to this essential text.