[G]ive him thy thanks for putting her into conceit with the sex that thou hast given her so much reason to execrate.

Ms. Ringwald finds a few things about these films regrettable. One thing she found significantly disturbing, she wrote, was how white the films are.

It also makes its own marijuanalike chemicals, and it has receptors that respond to cocaine and LSD.

When people ask me what the circus is really like behind the scenes, I tell them about runaway gypsy wagons, vanished acrobats, desperate ringmasters and recalcitrant sea lions to name a few.