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...From the start, director Peter Hedges cues Dan's mellow, mildly rueful tone. We hear the sensitive strumming of an acoustic guitar; we see Dan seen doing his kids' laundry and getting little credit from them for being a full-time dad; and at the bookstore, Marie says that what she's looking for is "something funny, but not big ha-ha-ha laughter...something human and funny that could sneak up and surprise you." It could be a recipe for the old-fashioned or chick comedy, and a template for Dan in Real Life...
...decide to write a tell-all book? -Christopher Mariano, Turin, ItalyIt is only "tell-some" - you can only do some things at a time. My eldest son, Jamie, prompted me. He said, 'Come on, Dad. People want to know what makes you tick.' So I said, 'I haven't got no time for this.' But he said, 'Make time.' So over the last three years, I have been jotting things down...
...when Crackers got “sick” (how do you know when a fish is sick?), who informed her that he specialized in more—ahem—rare varieties of sea creatures than church-carnival fish. Touché.The first time I ever saw my dad cry was when Zippy the cat died. The three of us drove him to the emergency animal hospital when we realized he couldn’t breathe, and he was put down that evening after being “diagnosed” with cancer. It seemed strange to me that...
...foreigners on our soil (especially that of the wild Canadian hordes) makes my skin crawl. And there’s only one thing that makes my skin stop crawling—apple pie, just like my mom makes (my mom, who is American–way to go, Dad...
...Romney—now a leading Republican presidential candidate. Tagg Romney, a 1998 graduate of the Business School and a senior advisor to his father’s campaign, said there was an unspoken undercurrent of support for Romney’s criticism of Harvard. “My dad is not going to win the majority of Harvard votes,” he said. But “it is so important to encourage young people to get involved and wonderful to see so many Romney supporters at this meeting.” Romney did not back away from...