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  • Hallmark to air its original movie ‘The Water is Wide’ in January

    Hallmark to air its original movie ‘The Water is Wide’ in January

    MUMBAI: Hallmark US has announced that it will air its original movie The Water is Wide in January 2006. It is based on the autobiographical book by author Pat Conroy who wrote The Prince of Tides. The film version of that book was directed by Barbara Streisand and got seven Oscar nominations.

    The Water is Wide stars Alfre Woodard The Practice, Desperate Housewives and Frank Langella Good Night, and Good Luck.

    The drama, spanning 1969 to 1970, based on Conroy’s memoir, recounts his experiences as a young, idealistic and unconventional teacher who strives to bring literacy, knowledge and self-respect to the predominantly poor black children living on a small isolated island off the coast of South Carolina.

    Desperate to secure a job as his wedding day approaches Conroy convinces Dr. Henry Piedmont (Langella), the arrogant superintendent of schools, to offer him a teaching position on the remote Yamacraw Island. He accepts the position after obtaining the reluctant blessing of his bride-to-be, Barbara, (Julianne Nicholson).

    Upon meeting the 12 students in his combined classroom for grades five through eight, Pat is shocked to find that most of them are illiterate, can barely add and can’t even name their own country or its president.

    Though the children embrace his kind, spirited and, at times, silly manner, and begin to thrive under his tutelage, Pat continues to face resistance from Piedmont. Instead of receiving praise, Pat learns that his job may be in jeopardy, and he has no intention of abandoning the students without a fight.

  • Americans use media more than they realise: Study

    Americans use media more than they realise: Study

    SOUTH CAROLINA: Americans spend more time than they realise with the media, especially television. They often use multiple media simultaneously. These findings are contained in a new study which was released at a conference on media convergence at the University of South Carolina.
     

    The study concluded that residents of Middletown, USA (Muncie, Indiana) spend 10 and a half hours a day using media. For around a quarter of that time, they are using at least two media simultaneously. Television, at 4.5 hours a day, is the most used medium. It is followed by computers (2.4 hours), radio (1.9 hours), reading (1 hour), music (55 minutes), phone (53 minutes), video games (12 minutes) and e-mail (seven minutes).

    An academic team compared reported media use from telephone surveys and personal diaries to actual, observed use. Researchers followed 101 subjects for an entire day from the time they got up to the time they went to bed. The researchers found that the group shadowed spent substantially more time with the media than indicated by more traditional research methods. The greatest discrepancy was in television viewership. The closest correlation between reported vs. observed behavior was in time spent reading. The study suggests self-reporting may be unreliable and that to be effective, research should measure more than one medium at a time.

    The study also offers new insights into the reported drop in television viewership among 18 to 34 year old males. The men in this group observed by the researchers watched less TV than other demographic groups. They spend more time listening to music, watching videos and playing video games.