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...here," I said at 2 a.m., and we immediately moved our 4-year-old to a cot inside the closet. Mercifully, she slept almost the entire night, waking up just once to ask what the "boom-booms" were. The wind - like the continuous blast of a train whistle, interrupted by the occasional roar of a jet engine - didn't seem to bother...
...Reykjavík is the story of Hlynur, a 30-year-old slacker who lives with his divorced mother in their cramped 101 apartment. She still buys him underwear; he smokes weed with her in the evenings. Eventually, Hlynur's mom comes out of the closet and takes a lover - a free-spirited flamenco dancer - whom Hlynur falls for, too. The story of their triangle unfolds against snow-covered streets and alternating cozy and claustrophobic interiors, in loving tribute both to the neighborhood and its seasonal ritual of drinking to excess. "Life is one week," Hlynur says as the film...
...That policy - instituted on the basis that gay officials might be vulnerable to blackmail - was lifted at the start of the 1990s, but perceptions of Whitehall as a place where it's better to stay in the closet have been harder to shift. "All we're doing is making sure as a prospective employer we're spreading our net as wide as possible to attract the best possible candidates who fully represent the diversity of U.K. society," says a senior Whitehall source. Summerskill suggests that gay candidates may even have an advantage over straight rivals. "If you have grown...
...Then Hayes, a proselytizing practitioner of Scientology, took exception to the episode called Trapped in the Closet, in which Hayes' religion is excoriated as a cult of charlatans and fleecers. He submitted his resignation, ignoring the first rule of dealing with Parker and Stone: These guys have their own TV soapbox, so don't piss them off. They snipped together lines of dialogue from earlier Hayes speeches to create the March 2006 episode The Return of Chef, in which South Park's local hero is charged with child molesting before wild animals tear his limbs off - and those are only...
...curator Gay Hendriksen had in sourcing items for an exhibition which, though three years in the making, is a trifle light on astonishing artefacts. "I still believe the objects are out there," says Hendriksen, who suspects many convict descendants "don't want to talk about the skeleton in the closet...