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...there is one faint ray of hope in the film it flickers briefly in a dorm discussion of Harry Potter. Most the kids say the J. K. Rowling books are forbidden in their homes. But one little boys admits, quite cheerfully, that when he is staying with his divorced father, he is permitted to read them. Let us not wonder if it was religious differences that drove his father forth. Or if religious belief is one way his former wife compensates for a broken marriage. Let's instead concentrate on the enveloping power of secularism in America...
...that's been true in all my plays. After Abu Ghraib happened, I wanted to pose the question: how do good and decent people do terrible deeds? I have a profound hunger to understand that, especially having grown up in a household where I had this very attractive, successful father who was incredibly violent...
...wouldn't say "chilled out." I think I'm more passionate and more driven than ever. But I'm not coming at it from the same place. For so much of my life, I was doing things because my father had implanted in me this profound need to be approved of. But it's crazy to fight for change and then want people to like you. Now that I'm in my 50s, I know who I am. I'm desperately concerned with stopping violence against women, stopping wars and stopping the destruction of the environment. I don't care...
...editor of an Estonian food magazine. For a while, Lukas had a Russian boyfriend. He spoke Estonian, but some of his family didn't; she speaks some Russian, but many of her friends don't. That was awkward sometimes and, she admits: "It was a problem for my father...
...Americans who joined the Lafayette Escadrille in the French military to train as pilots, before America officially entered the World War I. It focuses on an endearing motley crew including a black professional boxer, a small town klutz, an aspiring hero, and a pudgy New England snob whose father thrusts him into the escadrille after he is expelled, coincidentally, from Harvard. Franco stars as Blaine Rawlings, a Texas farm boy who learns to overcome his idealism as he rockets to the top of the squadron, while fanning some embers with a local French refugee (Decker). Franco has come a long...