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Scott’s father was never found. And though his mother was given an urn full of dust and ash from Ground Zero, he has no concrete reminder of his father. He said he is hoping to get permission to carry a handful of dust or debris from Ground Zero back with him to Florida...
...poets are Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), a 19th century literary light with a famously serene marriage, and Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle), a less renowned word magician. Imagine an affair between Robert Browning and Christina Rossetti and the scandal that would have rocked the 1860s--or the literary furor it might stoke today if the news were finally to come to light. That's the notion that drives two modern scholars, the American Roland (Aaron Eckhart) and the British Maud (Gwyneth Paltrow), deep into a long-submerged cache of love letters and finally into their own furtive embrace...
...might never know it had gone out of style. Ehle, the most beguiling of young Brit actresses, uses her tight smile to convey the pained radiance in Christabel's wisdom. These actor-poets make love like chamber music--two cellos playing each other. "Did you not flame," Christabel asks Ash, "and I catch fire?" When Possession finds its true home, lodging in the convulsive certitude of Victorian romance, it does indeed catch fire--and warms any viewer in the mood for love...
...water; where her old house once stood, her son has floated a huge cage to raise fish. Migratory birds, such as rare swans and spoonbills, have returned to the area. WWF lent Hu enough money to buy a sow, which will give birth in three weeks. Her new ash-colored cement house is hardly palatial?there's a gaping hole where the front door should be because the family ran out of money to finish building. But for the first time in her life, Hu says, "I'm not afraid of the water...
Loss is everywhere on The Rising, but the album's best track, You're Missing, penetrates the unique horror of having a loved one turned to ash. Lyrically the song is a catalog of absence: a coffee cup on the counter, a newspaper on a doorstep. But the song rises to greatness because Springsteen not only recognizes dramatic details but also knows what they mean. "Loss is about what you miss," he says. "You miss a person's physical being--their skin, their hair, the way they smell, the way they make you feel. You miss their body. When...