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...movie's major difference from the book is in its portrait of Leonidas' queen, Gorgo (who in Greek legend was also the daughter of the king's half-brother). Miller, mesmerized by battle and honor, had little interest in the queen; she appears in just a few panels. The movie, true to the actual Spartan tradition of emancipated womanhood, promotes Gorgo (played with a kind of stalwart sensuality by Headey) to a co-starring role, allowing her to take fatal revenge on a wicked politician who had sodomized her. In the book, Leonidas thought Sparta was always an ideal worth...
...Louisiana institution. The doctor was alive and nervous in September as agents from the IRS's criminal-investigation division began questioning members of his department about its finances. Gerber's associates recall his behaving erratically and constantly phoning for legal advice. Then on Oct. 12, in Tennessee, his daughter Elisa, 21, walked away from the wreck of a car she had driven into two trees. She said she had been tired. Apparently she had fallen asleep at the wheel. There were two bodies in the car, her mother Minda and her father Michael, whose face, says a mortician who helped...
...world of poetry were a monarchy, Frieda Hughes would certainly be a princess. A poet, children's book author and artist in her own right, Hughes, 46, is the daughter of poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her parents' tumultuous marriage, her father's infidelity, her mother's suicide when Frieda Hughes was three, and her parents' larger-than-life work (including her mother's semi-autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar) have been the subject of dozens of books and movies. Now Hughes has broken her near silence about her own life and family drama, in her moving new book...
...protecting my child from cancer outweighs any reluctance to ponder her sexual future. "But some parents are totally in denial," says my longtime pediatrician, Dr. Marc Wager of New Rochelle, N.Y. It's his practice to discuss the vaccine when parents bring a daughter for a checkup at 11 or 12. But he doesn't force it on those who resist, and he's willing to edit his discussion of HPV transmission for those who don't want a child to hear...
...next challenge: persuading my 18-year-old daughter to go for the shots. "Better hurry," warns Wager with a twinkle. "You'll want to get it in before she's off to college...