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...notice the disappearance of a 5-year-old girl, Rilya Wilson, for more than a year; in Miami. Appointed to replace her by Governor Jeb Bush was Jerry Regier, a conservative Christian who immediately drew fire for old ties to a group that wrote an essay in support of childhood spankings...
...what is the deal with this Seinfeld guy? Oppenheimer, whose credits include unauthorized biographies of Martha Stewart and Barbara Walters, doggedly interrogates Seinfeld's childhood pals, ex-girlfriends and business partners in search of an answer. But the only picture he can come up with is of an almost eerily boring individual, an emotional recluse and a relentless workaholic whom a colleague once labeled a robo-comic. The book suffers from a total lack of access to the man and his famous co-stars, as well as from Oppenheimer's egregious sub-tabloid prose--he wouldn't know an elegant...
...Asian identity in a way that reflected the thinking of the time: they loved her unconditionally and encouraged her to be a good American. Yet as Cox grew up in tiny Brownsville, Ore., questions of identity and race were always simmering just beneath the surface of her all-American childhood. A look in the mirror told Cox that she was different from her parents and three of her siblings (a younger brother was also adopted from South Korea), and childhood experiences emphasized the racial isolation from her loving family she sometimes felt. "In any new situation, I felt I always...
...controversial, but experts estimate that an additional 1 million preteens and children in the U.S. may suffer from the early stages of bipolar disorder. Moreover, when adult bipolars are interviewed, nearly half report that their first manic episode occurred before age 21; 1 in 5 says it occurred in childhood. "We don't have the exact numbers yet," says Dr. Robert Hirschfeld, head of the psychiatry department at the University of Texas in Galveston, "except we know it's there, and it's underdiagnosed...
...makes sense. Like Allen, the screenwriter acts in his movies and usually plays one of the film's creepiest characters. But in White's case, the creepiness is intentional. In Chuck & Buck (2000), he starred as an emotionally stunted man who so badly wants to reconnect with a childhood friend that he stalks him. In this year's teen comedy Orange County, he was an unctuous, semiliterate English teacher. In The Good Girl, he's a born-again security guard with a crooked grin and a suspiciously relentless evangelism. ("I'm not a pagan, but thanks anyway!" he says when...