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...because her neighbor at the beach, the appealingly humble Tim (Henry Thomas), has an autistic child and John has a slightly autistic father (it was Asperger's in the book). In both cases, the bad wives have fled, scared off by the autism, presumably. Richard Jenkins plays John's dad, and though the role doesn't require him to do much more than fondle a coin collection and avoid direct eye contact, his understated performance makes Mr. Tyree the film's most touching character. (See the top 10 movies...
...Sparks film factory shows no signs of shutting down. Two more books are being developed and The Last Song arrives next month, starring Miley Cyrus as a rebellious teen sent to live with her estranged father. From the trailer, Greg Kinnear looks darling in the dad role. Ten bucks says he's a dead man. My argument with the Sparks oeuvre is not that a happy ending is needed; a sad ending can be just lovely. But continually setting your characters up for a fall and then wielding misery like a club? We want to be moved, not clobbered...
...calm I previously felt devolved into a broadening grin, then a suppressed giggle, then burgeoning self-consciousness at my inappropriate response to her humiliation. Rather than feel bad for the poor girl, standing alongside her dad with the beautiful baritone, my sisters and I started laughing. At first our laughter was controlled, almost squelched. But once one of my sisters released an indelicate, indecorous snort, my control waned. I started laughing so hard that I quaked. I held my hair in front of my face and pinched my legs, but no matter how hard I bit down on my lower...
...This is my two kids [on a typical day back home]. My kids are at the track all day…If they want to come see Dad, I live two miles from the track, so [my family] can just hop in the car and come on down. I’m way blessed in that. Maybe some people think it’s a distraction, but it helps me be more focused knowing that my family is happy and taken care...
They were sitting at the kitchen counter, and I walked in on my dad going through the follow-up story, the one about sleeping in the pastures outside of Athens because he and his friends couldn’t get a hotel...