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...gangster is someone with no fear and no goal," says Manuel Romero, a former corporal in the Marine Corps whose brother is in the Playboys. "If you fear something, you will try to move away from it. If you have a goal, you will try to go towards it. They don't go anywhere...
...erupting as boomers confront the reality of caring for aging parents. "We have an unexpressed wish that our parents will someday acknowledge the injustices done us," notes University of Pittsburgh elder-law professor Larry Frolik. "Someday Mom will understand that I'm as smart as my rich older brother or will finally admit, 'Honey, your husband's really a swell...
Those mixed messages often mask a complex stew of emotional issues with long histories. "Acrimonious" is the way one professional woman in her early 60s describes her relationship with her "very successful" older brother, which is why she insists on anonymity and won't name her brother or allow him to be contacted. She lives in a Northeastern city with their 90-year-old mother, who has midstage Alzheimer's; he lives far away. When they were kids, brother and sister fought over control. Now in their 60s, they're struggling over, well, control. "To me, he was always...
...brother, she says, wanted to take control of Mom's money through a power of attorney and then place her in a nursing home. To prevent that, his sister gave up full-time work for part time, closed up her own house and moved in with Mom, for whom she does everything. Her mother arranged for her to receive a stipend for helping--a rarity for family caregivers. The compensation is not much, but she's sure her brother thinks she's sponging off Mom. So she refuses to ask him for help...
...reality MTV. That network's film division is distributing Murderball--which Shapiro says is "definitely more MTV than PBS"--and will give it plenty of on-air promotion this month. MTV's kid brother, Nickelodeon Movies, put money into Mad Hot Ballroom. When dockers go to Nick and MTV rather than to the New York State Council on the Arts for support, something has changed. Docs have stopped relying on government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What...