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...real life, Mac is a family man who brags about his grown daughter's graduate studies in psychology and her upcoming wedding, unironically uses "doggone" as an expletive and still lives in his hometown, Chicago. But after decades in stand-up (he did monologues at church banquets as a kid), he found success when raunchy comic turned sitcom star Redd Foxx encouraged him to make his act more dangerous. "He said, 'Young man, you're funny,'" Mac recalls. "'But your problem is, you don't want to be funny. You want to be liked...
Some in Northern Ireland remain worried that the size and method of the arms disposal remain shrouded in secrecy, which De Chastelain says is needed to continue the process. Gina Murray, whose 13-year-old daughter was killed by an I.R.A. bomb exactly eight years before decommissioning, is not alone in having doubts. "I think I have to see it to believe it," she said. But O?Dowd says the actions solved the republican movement?s problems in the U.S. at a stroke. At home, the peace process is revived, but some of its deepest problems haven?t been resolved...
...Every time we see something devastating, it brings back the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the whole dang ball of wax," says Paul Howell, who lost his 28-year-old daughter Karan Shepherd in the bombing. Howell, like Doris Jones, 53, knew immediately after the recent attacks that he would go to New York City to help. Both of them made the trip, sponsored by the Red Cross. Three times a day, they escorted grieving family members on tours of ground zero...
...Catholic, small-town, the daughter of the police chief--none of which prevents Bev (Drew Barrymore) from getting knocked up by the wrong boy (Steve Zahn, playing dumb but sweet-natured) at age 15. The rest of the movie is about her trying to realize her ambitions (college, writing books, ensuring her son's love) while dealing with her husband's fecklessness, her boy's fractiousness, her own foot-in-mouth feistiness. It is somewhat repetitive, but it is also wonderfully acted, especially by Barrymore. Like the movie itself, she's neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandizing--just real...
...some parents aren't convinced. "There can be a 20- to 40-year lag time before people show the signs of asbestos inhalation," says Pauline Ores, a displaced mother of two young girls. "Our kids will be in the prime of their life. If there's a mistake, my daughter's going...