Word: drug-addicted
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...there's a volatile, tender symbiosis in the tandem of Flynt (Woody Harrelson) and his bisexual stripper drug-addict wife Althea (Courtney Love). They goad, torture and love each other, to the limit. Casting the Lady Cobain was not merely an art-imitates-death stunt; she's a real actress, rangy and sympathetic, with an instinct for just the right dose of excess. Love and Harrelson make The People vs. Larry Flynt a case well worth studying. --By Richard Corliss...
...trophy in Losing Isaiah, written by Naomi Foner and directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal, is a black child whose drug-addict mother (Halle Berry) dumped him in a garbage can shortly after his birth. Now he is two-and the point of contention in a tug-of-love between the mother and the family that raised him. Isaiah plays as a court case, with evidence and arguments for each side. But in movie terms, the case is stacked against Lange: next to Berry's radiant youth, she looks sere and exhausted. It is one of those dares a maturing female star...
...with larger, if entirely inchoate, ambitions. They have invested John with a real problem -- alcoholism -- and they have plunked the Learys down on a block that is a sort of dumping ground for the damned of the lower middle class. Among their new neighbors are a neo-Nazi, a drug-addict mom who dies of an overdose and someone who keeps a pack of killer Dobermans in the yard next door. For a family teetering on the brink of dysfunction, this environment seems bound to push them over the edge. Sure enough, Dylan, the younger son, is kidnapped and rendered...
...demeanor and his often bemused attitude toward Bush. He struck back when the President again attacked his patriotism, cleverly invoking Bush's father's famous castigation of Joseph McCarthy. Clinton, in an attempt to humanize himself, invoked almost every member of his family, both living and dead -- his recovering drug-addict brother who "is alive today because of the criminal-justice system"; his widowed mother, a paragon of family values even as a single parent; his "heart-of-gold" grandfather, who taught him to hate segregation; his daughter, just for being alive; and his wife because it was their 17th...
...elements of the play which give it such emotional impact Long Day's Journey ...is a play in four acts that traces the development of the Tyrone family through agonizing dialogues between the four characters during one day Events of the past are highlighted through solitary confessions from the drug-addict mother, the Irish actor father, the tubercular younger son and the bitter and cynical older...