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...Oglesby says he does see is a shortage of families willing to pay adoption fees -- which range from $3,500 to $50,000 for a private adoption. "You're talking about a race of people who were brought here in slavery," he says. "Paying money for a child is akin to slavery." Instead of charging prospective parents a fee, Oglesby handles his expenses with donations from Hollywood entrepreneurs and the $3,000 that the government pays him for each foster child he places...
...findings in his book are more akin to the spiritual realm, not the physical he says...
Artistically, Passion is one of the great turnarounds. During previews, it seemed hopeless. The obsessed woman struck spectators as akin to a stalker, too creepy to induce sympathy. Her unstinting devotion resembled emotional blackmail. The narrative, two hours without intermission, felt strained and wearisome. Many theatergoers fidgeted or tittered in the wrong places. (There aren't many right places to laugh in Passion, which makes no use of Sondheim's greatest gift -- a talent for writing intricate comic lyrics that fit the characters.) Sensing disaster, Sondheim and director-librettist James Lapine revamped the plot, recast a major role, picked...
Daniel grew up in the middle-class London suburb of Greenwich. Home life was akin to A Room with a View; street life was My Beautiful Laundrette, a jumble of good times and hard prejudices. "In my case," he says in his gently urgent, upper-class voice, "they could have chosen any one of a number of insults, since I was Irish and Jewish, and from a different class to most of the kids. They knew that because of my voice. But children are very adaptable. They're great performers: they perform for their parents all the time, to find...
...judge Peninsula's recent issues by the standard is akin to judging atom bombs weak because they're not hydrogen bombs...