Word: clan
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...often someone other than the baby's parents. My aunt Lena, for instance, has an uncanny ability to read a baby's cries. Lena, who has six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren, has run our family's unofficial "baby boot camp" for three generations. New parents in our clan will show up at her house with their eyes pinwheeling from exhaustion, only to have Lena quickly dispense her diagnosis: "This baby's so tired. Why on earth don't you put him to bed?" If she likes you, she will take your cranky baby for 24 hours and return...
...actor, Yuen has shown he can take punishment as well as dish it out. It's a family affair: as a boy he appeared with his father in the old Wong Fei-hung dramas. The brothers have often collaborated as actors and stunt coordinators, billed as the Yuen Clan. In The Miracle Fighters, a delirious carnival of a film that plays like a ber-Cirque du Soleil, Yat-choh is the young hero, Cheung-yan a cranky lady wizard, Sunny the nasty Sorcerer Bat and Brandy a clown-face warrior condemned to live in a jar. In Mismatched Couples...
...ARRESTED. BENEDETTO SPERA, 60, member of the notorious Cosa Nostra clan and reputed right-hand man of Italy's most wanted Mafia fugitive, Bernardo Provenzano, for his alleged role in several high-profile murders; in Sicily. On the run for nine years, Spera had been sentenced to life imprisonment in absentia for the car-bomb murders of two prominent anti-Mafia judges in 1992; he was also implicated in several other murders. His arrest might have struck film-lovers as familiar: Spera was apprehended in a sting operation in the countryside near Corleone, the Italian setting of several scenes...
GREAT BRAWL OF CHINA CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON SONY PICTURES CLASSICS The bid for grass-roots buzz resulted in screenings for the Wu-Tang Clan and various players for the Yankees and Jets, plus a successful push to nab Entertainment Weekly's coveted Oscar-preview cover...
...their lives, as circumstances careen out of their control. Convicted of conspiring to murder a policeman, Aaron, sick with tuberculosis, dies a broken rebel, his country still under British rule. As an old man, Daniel returns to Chevathar to establish Doraipuram, a settlement to unite the Dorai clan, only to see his dream dissolve in disharmony and contention. After his death, Daniel's estranged son Kannan quits his job at a tea plantation and returns to his roots, just as India, in 1947, becomes a free nation...