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...Jeffrey Marshall, a certified elder-law attorney in Williamsport, Pa., you can hire a lawyer and go to court to "seek an accounting." More usual and costly is a guardianship suit, by which you seek to become your mother's legal guardian, revoking the POA. Alternatively, you could call adult protective services to investigate a suspected case of financial abuse...
...year when French director and writer Cédric Klapisch called about Les Poupées Russes (Russian Dolls). His sequel to L'Auberge Espagnole reunites the original ensemble, including Amélie star Audrey Tautou, and revisits the students five years on as they face the c?hallenges of adult life. "It was so wonderful getting together again that I think the same enthusiasm shines through," says De France. Yet her own tastes lie elsewhere: "American and French cinema are wonderfully creative and entertaining, but they lack the hard-edged, at times brutal messages, themes and humor of northern cinema...
...culture that is also attracting religious outsiders. Southern Catholics say their real strength is not in the influx of co-believers coming into the region but in the rising number of native converts. In an area where many consider Catholics idolaters, the adult catechumen class at St. Mary's in Greenville, site of conservative Protestant Bob Jones University, has leapt to more than 60 members from a minuscule number a few years ago, according to Newman, who converted from Protestantism in 1982. Beth Burgess, 42, a lifelong Presbyterian, is converting despite the open disapproval of her parents. She feels...
...That wouldn't be the last time Nanny came to my rescue," says Ruben (played, as an adult, by Hill Harper). She saves him here too--from the narration's sentimental bent--through Merkerson's strong, smart and earthy performance. Nanny is essentially a professional crisis manager, defusing fights, shooing off troublemakers and healing broken souls with sugar and steel. She's part social worker, part cop and all heart...
Though it's based on a beloved book for young people, Little Women: The Musical is the most adult new musical of the Broadway season and an unexpectedly satisfying meal. Skillfully adapted from Louisa May Alcott's novel by Allan Knee (author of The Man Who Was Peter Pan, on which the film Finding Neverland is based), it reintroduces us to the four March sisters, marooned in their Massachusetts home while their father is off to the Civil War. Directed by Susan H. Schulman (The Secret Garden), the show is pretty, unpretentious, warmhearted but surprisingly restrained: even the death...