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...occasion was a White House luncheon, hosted by Lady Bird Johnson, in Jan. 1968, near the zenith of the Vietnam War, just before the Tet Offensive. Kitt had given birth to a daughter in 1960, from her five-year marriage to real-estate developer William O. McDonald, and spoke more as a mother than as a criminologist. "You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed," she told the First Lady. "They rebel in the streets. They will take pot and they will get high. They don't want to go to school because they...
...Pearce) as his heir, while employing Skeeter in the lowly capacity of light-bulb changer. At the hotel his ally is do-nothing Mickey (Russell Brand); his other adversary is the officious Aspen (Lucy Lawless of Xena renown); and the potential prize and troublemaker is Nottingham's sexy daughter Violet (Teresa Palmer). When Skeeter's sister (Courteney Cox) goes out of town, she entrusts him with her two children (Jonathan Morgan Heit and Laura Ann Kesling). Actually, she doesn't trust him, so she has her schoolteacher neighbor Jill (Keri Russell) keep a skeptical...
...that paragraph as much a chore to read as it was to write? Any comedy with 11 major actors - not including Sandler's wife Jackie and daughter Sadie, the inevitable turn by Rob Schneider (another Sandler familiar, John Turturro, sat this one out) and a goggle-eyed guinea pig named Bugsy - is either (a) brilliantly dense in the Preston Sturges tradition or (b) just an overcongested mess. Go with...
...American voters apparently have evolved beyond such simplistic notions of what makes a good head of state, but they were not ever thus. In the 19th century, the occupants of the White House had herds of boys. The Lincolns had four. The Grants had three sons and a daughter. The Hayeses had seven sons and a daughter. The Garfields had seven kids, five of them sons. Not all of these male heirs lived in the White House - many died young, or were too old to be living with their parents - but several...
...Young girls, on the other hand, can be an asset to a candidate's image. "There's definitely something in the father daughter-relationship that makes being in the public eye much easier," says Meeks. "Girls want to please their mothers and particularly their fathers. Their dads can take their daughters places and do things with them and the girls...