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...State Department raged last week that Pat Robertson had suggested nuking its HQ. Did he, or didn't he? It's a close call as to who has said the darndest things lately--the Rev. or preacher's daughter Jessica Simpson, star of this season's required reality viewing, MTV's Newlyweds...
Most times, though, there's a smile on that craggy face. These days the hard-to-please Penn is invigorated by his life both at home--with his wife, actress Robin Wright Penn, and their children, daughter Dylan, 12, and son Hopper Jack, 10--and on the set. "I'm pretty engaged with everything in my life right now," he says. "I haven't always been like this," he adds, unnecessarily. Fate has been treating Penn well recently, and he's returning the favor...
...zombie with a caring sadness. Sean (Kevin Bacon), now a cop, watched his wife walk out on him six months ago, but he's still faithfully married to his misery. Jimmy (Penn), who did time for a robbery in his youth, lavishes his burly, custodial affection on his daughter. And when the girl is murdered, it is Jimmy's turn to feel reamed by fate. Sean is the investigator, Dave a looming suspect...
...gnawing sense of missed opportunity finally won out. In March 2000 the Schweitzers, then 52 and 53, sold their home in Connecticut, invited all their friends to a grand farewell shindig and set out for Portland, Ore., where they found a home less than 10 miles from their son, daughter-in-law and infant granddaughter. "We didn't want to wait until we were frail, until we needed our children. We wanted to move while we could baby-sit, go to the zoo with them, have them over for dinner once in a while," says Linda...
That said, moving closer to your children certainly lets you establish a new relationship with them in a different context. Take Harold Nussbaum, 54, who wanted to know his daughter Fanita better. She was 7 when Harold and her mother divorced, and although he did his best to keep in touch, he felt he had missed out on big pieces of her life. So in 1998 he and his wife Gloria, 52, moved from their longtime home in Akron, Pa., to Beaverton, Ore. Now they live seven miles from Fanita, her husband and her three children. "We concentrate on simple...