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...those humorously named pies ("Baby Screaming its Head Off in the Middle of the Night and Ruining My Life" is another) you come to accept them as a convention this movie seems to require. Besides, they look delicious, unlikely as some of their ingredients appear to be. They are self-conscious grace notes, little tastes of the transformative possibilities that can be found even in essentially dismal lives. There's something spunky about those pies and there's something spunky about Waitress in general. Shelly wrote her screenplay when she was pregnant for the first time and it obviously reflects...
...indications of change amid the continuing carnage in Darfur. A U.S.-brokered peace deal last year between rebel groups and the Sudanese government was not worth the paper it was written on. The U.N. has resolved to send in peacekeepers but has been stymied by Sudan's refusal to accept them. After a U.N. panel revealed that contrary to Sudan's denials, government planes have been transporting arms and military equipment to Darfur, Khartoum said it would accept the deployment of 3,000 U.N. troops. They would complement the 7,000 African Union peacekeepers already on the ground, but even...
...until they're already married. Nobody minds if you date outside your tribe, and people applaud an ambitious play for the hubba-hubba human across the room, but--as my brothers and sisters in the gay community have found--there's a world of difference between what people will accept in the innocent suburbs of hooking up and the judgmental metropolis of marriage...
Michelle Pfeiffer, away from onscreen roles since 2002, returns in three movies this summer, two--Hairspray and the fantasy Stardust--as a villain. For her Hairspray role of Velma Von Tussle, the ex--beauty queen who can't accept the races mixing on a '60s TV dance party, Pfeiffer trawled for sympathy: "Yes, she's a bigot, but she's also a victim of the era she grew up in. It all changed on her, and what was once perfectly acceptable behavior suddenly wasn't. I think that's sad." Whereas her character in Stardust, a witch bent on destroying...
William Wright-Swadel, director of the Office of Career Services, said that primary parents looking for flexible schedules within a certain field—such as medicine—often have to accept a lower paying job than those not requiring such hours...