Word: brothers
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...overwhelming at first, beginning with a confusing torrent of voices and pantomimed scenes. What is important to understand is that Sophocles' classical Greek play has been transferred to Civil War-era Maryland, a border state and thus the most likely locale for the background story of the tragedy. Two brothers, sons of Oedipus (yes, that Oedipus), fight each other to the death, one brother killing the other and then dying from a bullet wound. Creon, the governor of Maryland (Edie Bishop '00) has declared that the Union Army brother will be buried with honor while his Confederate brother is left...
...individual manifestations of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). Martin deftly uses OCD (By no means a glaring theme within the book) to represent the complex, unavoidable and often tragic ties that bind families. Except for dutifully doing what she is told, Keelin seems to be unaffected by the disorder. Her brother Patrick, however, develops from a boy so fixated by his own sinfulness that the priest complains about his overly frequent confessions into a latex glove-wearing paranoid trapped in his own neurosis. Like Keelin, the fourth sister Orla seems to have escaped OCD, though she does pass...
Attention all teenyboppers: the long lost fourth Hanson brother has been rescued from the icy nether regions of Fargo, North Dakota. His name is Jonny Lang, and he plays a mean guitar...
...video, he was able to capitalize on his all American pre-pubescent mug. Riding the wail of his electric manhood. Lang's acceleration to the top of the charts was fueled by his lanky frame, laid-back cool and thickly applied accolades from every blues brother. He is now being hailed as the musical messiah of the next millennium...
That happens to Beth Cappadora (Michelle Pfeiffer) in The Deep End of the Ocean, adapted by Stephen Schiff from Jacquelyn Mitchard's novel. In a crowded hotel lobby, she leaves little Ben in the care of his seven-year-old brother for a few minutes, and when she returns he has wandered off--or fallen off the end of the earth. A kidnapping scenario has the makings of melodrama or piety, but this carefully complex movie, directed by Ulu Grosbard, finds urgency in more ambiguous family vectors...