Cautionary articles
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Assisted suicide in Minnesota? Critics point to Canada as cautionary tale
MINNEAPOLIS — Kathy Ware was on Instagram recently when she saw a story about Canada's medical assistance in dying law. It shook her.
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The story of epochal flop 'Heaven's Gate' isn't a disaster yarn. It's a cautionary tale
When Steven Bach’s “Final Cut” appeared in 1985, it was mainly sold as Hollywood dish. Bach, the former head of production at United Artists, had delivered the inside story of “Heaven’s Gate,” a 1980 epic western by Michael Cimino that was budgeted at about $11.5 million, wound up costing around four times that, and prompted the hobbled studio’s sale to MGM. Here at last were the details of Cimino’s outsize ego and UA’s futile attempts to restrain it. In the years that followed, as “Heaven’s...
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Commentary: 'The Golden Bachelor' divorce turns a TV success story into a cautionary tale
Last week Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist, the boomer couple who charmed millions by falling in love on “The Golden Bachelor” last fall and getting hitched in a live, two-hour special on ABC in January, announced they were planning to divorce after just three months of marriage. The news earned the septuagenarians the dubious honor of having the shortest marriage in the history of “The Bachelor,” which is hardly known as a launching pad for stable relationships. Even by Hollywood’s low standards,...