Word: beno
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...FRANCE Her Brother's Baby A 62-year-old Frenchwoman gave birth to a child conceived from a donated egg fertilized by her brother's sperm. Jeanine used the brother's sperm to ensure an heir to an estimated $2 million inheritance. A boy, Benoît-David, was born on May 14 after fertility treatment in California. The egg donor, an American woman, also bore a child, a virtual twin girl named Marie-Cécile, conceived using Jeanine's brother Robert's sperm. The story caused widespread controversy...
...Room tells a wrenching story - of a happy family riven by the teenage son's death - in acutely somber vignettes that avoid the seductions of sentimentality and melodrama. The Piano Teacher stirs up a tasty poison porridge of lusts and hatreds between a precocious pianist (Benoît Magimel) and his stern tutor (Isabelle Huppert); in chic, lurid images it suggests that teachers, perhaps all adults, try to express and exorcise their frustrations by dominating their charges. In coarser hands, this tale of obsession and self-mutilation could be ludicrous from the start; in these hands it is goofy only...