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LAURIE BERKNER: UNDER A SHADY TREE If you're Sting's or Madonna's child, you want Mom or Dad to play at your birthday party, right? Wrong. You want toddler-set diva Berkner. A kind of sippy-cup Sheryl Crow, Berkner inhabits a kid's curious perspective in her lyrics and pens folk-pop melodies that bear repeated-- very repeated--listenings...
...hill of beans. Yet we are meant to care for Ray (Cruise), his teenage son (Justin Chatwin) and young daughter (Dakota Fanning)--natural antagonists forced together by disaster. How do three members of a broken family behave during an alien invasion? Exactly the way they do any other time. Dad drives erratically, son sulks in the front seat, and kid sister screams in the back. Hey, guys, we're having an apocalypse here. Could you please stop bickering...
...seriously. It was Paul, the driving force behind intramurals, who reminded his teammates when the going got rough that it was only an IM championship (they lost the football, basketball and volleyball championship matches in three consecutive nailbiters—all videotaped by Paul’s dad and score tallied by Lindsey). It was Paul who could play soccer with the stars and run like the wind, but didn’t mind going on a gentle bike-ride through Cambridge with Danny and Danny’s less-than-jockish sister. He even helped me convince my brother...
...years ago was selling discs out of the back of his car. Today he is one of the most successful independent rappers in the business--the self-proclaimed "ghetto Bill Gates"--with a clothing line, a movie-production company, an acting career in film and on TV (he plays dad to his real-life son on Nickelodeon's Romeo) and 11 albums, the latest of which, Ghetto Bill: The Best Hustler in the Game, came out last week. His theory is that people are attracted to the sort of levity Southern rappers provide. "It's like Southern hospitality. People...
FAMILY LIFE: Troubled relationship with Dad...