Word: fatherhood
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First Elf, now a kids' monster movie. Has fatherhood made you soft? I've been exposed to a lot of family entertainment. When you watch so much of a genre, you get inspired. I don't think standards are as high for family movies, which is nice as a filmmaker 'cause you can take more chances. So little is expected of you, the studios tend to leave you alone...
...Beercan,” Beck declares, “I quit my job blowing leaves,” and it seems like he finally has. There was still plenty of performance art, but none of it was frantic, and none of it felt forced. The fatherhood, the religion, the aging—it’s only turned Beck into someone who knows how to relax and be an expert performer. Not a faker, not an imitator, and not a producer of artifice. A musicmaker. A dreamer of dreams. Or something...
...story in the New Yorker. She has also called off their marriage, leaving their two sons shuffling back and forth between alternate parents. Bernard advises the boys (badly) on dating and on which of the books they're studying is second rate, but he is failing Fatherhood 101. The only course he excels at is Midlife Crisis. He has made such a mess of things, it might be the stuff of a great novel...
...women being hurt during pregnancy is in this case. He's the most malignant version of something that I think affects many men, who come to my office [Albow's clinical practice] for instance, who never share with anyone else the fact that they have very grave misgivings about fatherhood. Some of them are simply anxious; others are very depressed. There is a whole spectrum, and Scott Peterson is an [extreme] on that spectrum, but he still is a way for us to get into the question, what are men really thinking when their wives are pregnant...
...male abuse of females goes unchronicled, and to give the author her due, the long litany, from foot binding to burning for witchcraft, has a sobering effect. French, an academic who has taught English at Harvard, Hofstra and Holy Cross, seems incapable of nuance. The history of fatherhood, she believes, is the history of tyranny, and dialogue is impossible in corporations and other hierarchical institutions. One of the primary aims of military training is to teach young men how to hate...