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Accompanied by several friends of his, the elder Pawloski said he was not afraid to voice his support for the Crimson, even in enemy territory...
...thriller, The Good Son. Written by Ian McEwan (The Cement Garden, The Innocent), The Good Son is about good and evil doppelganger siblings. The money will be paid out whether or not the film, which has the boy playing the psychotic brother, gets made. Did the elder Culkin want The Good Son because Mack already has too many cute-little-boy roles? "If it's different, he seems to respond to it," says Dad. "You do what you can to keep it all going...
Holland's talents shine in the scenes of her rape, on her 11th birthday by a white town elder, and her mother's murder. She has an infallible ear for the emotional pace of a scene, letting the horror be just blunt enough for just long enough, then segueing into the release of laughter. She finds the right detail: the raped child from the shacks eyeing an exquisite carved bouquet on the banister as she struggles back downstairs; dogs sniffing at a patch of the mother's burnt skin scraped onto the sidewalk. Her dialogue can jolt the audience with...
...true for Meg Wolitzer's piece on Teresa Wright's role as Charlie in Shadow of a Doubt. Wolitzer related to the character's youthful naivete and fascination with her mysterious Uncle Charlie. Looking back, Wolitzer sees that the question of otherness explored by director Alfred Hitchcock, in the elder Charlie, captivated both Wright's Charlie and herself-- otherness in terms of age and gender...
...Florida retirees, he saw his income from oil and gas leases greatly reduced by the petroleum glut of the early '80s. Lansky died in 1983. If there were secret millions, they do not seem to have changed the lives of his family. After a life limited by cerebral palsy, elder son Buddy died a pauper...