High Fat, Low Fiber by Sarah Stegall copyright 1995 by Sarah Stegall Writer: John Shiban Director : David Nutter Ever since the Internet became the buzzword du jour, the media have focused their myopic sights on two features of it to the exclusion of all else: hackers and cybersex. Almost every story about the Internet contains, by reflex, some reference to computer break-ins, predators who hang out in chat rooms, or child pornography. Veiled and not so veiled warnings about the dangers of this new technology abound. And despite the fact that surveys show the overwhelming majority of Netizens to…
The X-Files: “Talitha Cumi”
Keepers of the Mystery by Sarah Stegall copyright ©1996 by Sarah Stegall Writer: Chris Carter Story by David Duchovny and Chris Carter Director: R. W. Goodwin “Who are these keepers of the mystery, who have taken some curse upon themselves for the happiness of mankind?”–The Grand Inquisitor, “The Brothers Karamazov” by Fyodor Dostoevsky Talitha Cumi, possibly the most mystical X-File to date, opens with Mulder and Scully’s search for a remarkable man who can calm a frenzied gunman, heal several people dying of gunshot wounds, and then vanish in the wink of an eye. This stranger, who goes by the…