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...Your childhood has been widely documented as having been very difficult: you were orphaned at the age of eight and, later, as a teenager, you were into gangs. How has acting been a release from that...
...Acting has made me embrace my childhood. It's become some weird form of therapy. It's like I have a place where I can release all of these emotions. When I was playing Ira Hayes, I didn't have to think about the death of my parents directly. It's just there. I can blend it into Ira's character. I can use Ira's emotions as an outlet. I can draw on this and say, "How does Ira feel about the death of his friends?" My body is not afraid to release that...
...used to upset the little boy. "It was 'What those shots, Mommy?' and 'Him was killed? Who dead?'" said Kathy, a fashionably dressed 19-year-old, imitating her son. These days, though, little Tramaine has grown accustomed to the gunfire; when it begins, he ignores it. Sonja, who has childhood friends now in the gangs, cannot remember how many funerals she has attended. Still, she sighs, "when I hear shots and they're close by, I panic. But if they be far away, it's like, 'I'm tired, it's fine...
Throughout Neil's childhood and adolescence, the strongest male influence in his life was his older brother Danny. From the start, Danny believed in his kid brother's limitless potential. According to Simon, Danny endowed him with the nickname "Doc"?an appellation for which there have been more interpretations than the Rosetta Stone?at age two. Neil was playing with a toy stethoscope, and Danny burst out, "This kid is gonna be a doctor." As Neil grew up, Danny enthusiastically envisioned him as America's greatest baseball player and, later, the world's foremost comic genius. He backed...
While education policy is traditionally a strong suit for Labor, the Howard government is particularly vulnerable to claims that it has neglected this area. Australia ranks low among rich countries on spending for early childhood education, scientific research and development, and vocational skills. The government's top economic bureaucrats have consistently warned of the need to boost productivity and invest in education and skills so as to reduce the future financial burden on younger workers as the boomer generation retires. In the popular mind, Howard's government, which has delivered good economic results for a decade, does not rate highly...