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...Yahoo! site to ascertain if workers were alive. Martin's father, 78 years old and eight months past triple-bypass surgery, had refused to leave his home. He was now missing, and Martin feared the worst. By Friday, Sept. 2, Mott located everyone. Martin found his dad in an Austin, Texas, shelter; he had spent three days in the squalid Superdome...
...ALSO RISES Life equipped newcomer Max Minghella well for his line of work. The 20-year-old plays the son of Richard Gere's distracted Kabbalist in Bee Season and of George Clooney's deceptive CIA operative in Syriana. The Columbia University student's real dad is the sort of man given to thinking deep thoughts and fabricating tales. He's Cold Mountain director Anthony Minghella. "I don't feel I've lived enough to write or direct, but acting is suited to an unformed self," says Max. And it also suits cute boys who summer on film sets...
Spitz isn't much for big theories, but that's O.K. The details are what's new and interesting anyway. Similarly, the beginning of the book is more interesting than its end, which is pretty much the Yokotastrophe you'd expect. When John was 5, his mom and dad separated. His father sat him down and made him choose which parent he would live with. At first he chose his father, but after his mother left, the desperate little boy went running up the street after her. That poignant image hints at the ineffable, aching heart of Lennon's creativity...
...longtime pilots who were disappointed that their kids were uninspired by flying, the grandkids present a second chance. Corbett yearned to fly as a boy, but his parents couldn't afford it. When he finally realized his dream at 32, his children, he says, "went along with Dad doing his thing but had no interest themselves." He feels a deep satisfaction in being able to give his grandkids a cherished thing that his parents couldn't give...
Your sister co-stars in your film. What does your family make of your often off-color work? Sometimes my mom, her thing is, "I have a very visual mind." My dad does not have a very visual mind. Either that or he's sick. 'Cause he's fine with...