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...come totally clean, and he has to do so in front of a camera. On Jan. 21, just shy of Quinn Hunter's second birthday, Edwards finally issued a statement that copped to his being her father. "It was wrong for me ever to deny she was my daughter, and hopefully one day, when she understands, she will forgive me," the press release said. Nuh-uh. For a doozy like that, you have to front up personally, say the experts. "I can't emphasize enough - the tone of voice is the most important element," says Mike Sitrick...
...this is just as exciting as it sounds, but director Jon Amiel's main intent is to frame Darwin's authorship of one of the most important books of all time around the death of a child, Darwin's 10-year-old daughter Annie (Martha West). Between her loss and his grief, Creation is a doubleheader of misery and melancholy that serve mostly to make you look forward to the writing bits. After a bout of scarlet fever, Annie languished for weeks. She was apparently the light of Darwin's life, and the movie does not miss an opportunity...
...Creation is based on a book called Annie's Box (published in the U.S. as Darwin, His Daughter and Human Evolution), written by one of Darwin's descendants, Randal Keynes, and inspired by a box of keepsakes from Annie's short life, items carefully set aside by her parents, which Keynes found in the family archives. Darwin and his wife Emma (played by Jennifer Connelly, Bettany's offscreen wife) had 10 children in all. Several of them are featured in the film, though you'd be hard-pressed to identify them as anything beyond Neglected Son No. 1, Neglected...
...school-board meetings across the land more than a century after his death? But the movie has an appalling narrative structure. We meet the little girl, admire her ready smile and, as the time frames shift, quickly realize she's doomed. (First clue: excessive cuteness. Second clue: Other Daughter's pointing out that Daddy seems to have stopped loving all of them when Annie died.) But it's not soon. We wait in dread for the climactic scene - the grief-gasm if you will - for the rest of the movie, and it's agonizing trying to figure...
...Still, he had a long way to go. One of only five Republicans in the 40-seat state senate, Brown wasn't even the best-known person in his family. His wife Gail Huff is a popular television reporter. His daughter Ayla was a semifinalist on American Idol and a four-year starter on the Boston College women's basketball team. The couple's other daughter, Arianna, is a premed freshman at Syracuse University. As picture-perfect as the Brown family looks, the Senator-elect's upbringing was anything but. His parents each married four times, and his mother...