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Such thinking clearly resonates with millions of people in their 40s, 50s and 60s who are keeping the second-home market alive. Last year, even as sales of primary residences fell, vacation-home sales rose nearly 5%, says the National Association of Realtors. The typical buyer of a vacation home was 44; a third of those people said they plan to move to the home full time later...
...Darjeeling, which opens the New York Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. They meet up with their mother (Anjelica Huston)--the source, we soon realize, of some of the boys' bad habits...
...which opens the New York Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's basically the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. Go to India and get your life validated by the Maharishi. Or get good drugs at fire-sale prices. This could have ended up as a Midnight Express nightmare, except that the Whitman boys' luck is a little better, a little weirder. One of them finds romance with a train...
...character obsessed with the Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination. Hi, Mom! follows a Viet vet (Robert De Niro) with a movie camera, recording what he sees and what he does, including bombing his own housing development, an action that kills his pregnant wife and his dog. In the 60s and today, De Palma says, war does bad stuff to people...
...legacies of feminism. If the personal is the political, as the women on the barricades made us believe, then even choices about how to face old age are going to be loaded. Barbara Kass, a New York City psychotherapist and definitely a citizen of Woodstock Nation in the '60s, feels twinges of guilt about dyeing her long hair at 53. She says, "At 22, getting older absolutely did not cross my mind. The young me would find it shocking that I dye my hair...