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...normal evening; two old school chums are getting together after seven years, catching up on each other's news. Alicia (Norma Aleandro) is particularly eager for Ana (Chunchuna Villafañe) to meet Gaby, the five-year-old girl she and her husband adopted when she was an infant. Late that night the two women sit gossiping and getting tiddly on eggnogs when, without at first modulating her tone, Ana explains why she left Argentina so suddenly, without saying goodbye to anyone. It is a tale of midnight abduction, a blow to her head--and waking up naked, tied...
...awesomely played by the two actresses. The way terror can suddenly appear in the midst of banality, the basic irony that is the source of most modern horror fiction whether it be crude slasher pic or elegant Hitchcock classic, has never been more eloquently or economically stated. For Ana, at least, there is relief in hysterically speaking at last of what has been, for her, the unspeakable. For Alicia, however, the friend's nightmare only hints at the one that she herself is to face. Under the terror imposed by the junta, which ruled Argentina until 1983, Ana has observed...
Often the state must intervene in cases where abuse or neglect is suspected. Two-year-old Ana Marie seemed to be perpetually falling and hurting herself. "I didn't pay her enough attention," admits her mother Kim Adalid, 19, who also has a three-year-old son and expects a third child in January. After one of Ana Marie's mishaps, Kim took her daughter to a doctor, who quickly discovered that the child's arm was broken. Believing that the girl had been neglected (a charge that Kim vigorously denies), the doctor filed a report with the California courts...
...ANA E. ENRIQUEZ -- Medford...
Bloggers are all the rage, but some tipping point of self-absorption may have been reached with BLOGEBRITY, a new site toasting the blogosphere's in crowd. The site's two twentysomething founders have created an A list of blogging stars (like WONKETTE'S Ana Marie Cox and Jason Kottke of KOTTKE.ORG), followed by hundreds of B and C listers. A post later lamented that blogging has lost its hip factor, but Blogebrity's founders are just getting going. Next up: plans for a print magazine and TV program featuring inside dish on bloggers. The A listers, anyway...