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Agents and directors look for unaffected kids with the gift of not minding being looked at. "I only respond to natural, and then what I do is enhance," says agent Meredith Fine, who represents Haley Joel Osment (an Oscar nominee for The Sixth Sense) and the Breslin siblings Spencer (The Cat in the Hat) and Abigail (Signs). "They have to have some innate ability. It's like, if you're going to take ice-skating lessons, you have to have good balance or you're going...
...crucial part of the equation, whether for instruction--Boyle would often tell Etel's mom what he needed the next day, and she would prep him--or for comfort. "I don't go home with them at night if they didn't get a job," says agent Fine. "Parents have to be dedicated to taking their kids through that, or it doesn't work...
...What will the E.U. sell, and what does China want to buy? In a recent interview with TIME, German Chancellor Gerhard Schr?der declared that his nation "has no intentions whatsoever of delivering weapons to China." Well, fine?although in the view of some analysts, it isn't really weapons that the Chinese want. But it isn't bratwurst, either. "The Chinese are not as likely to purchase off-the-shelf weapons systems as they are military-related technologies," says Evan Medeiros of the Rand Corporation in Washington. "Possible examples include submarine engines, fire control systems for air defense missile batteries...
...Grant-Hepburn limelight, and George Cukor directs with his usual quiet mastery. Those lusciously long takes remind viewers that star quality, not editing, is the essence of classic Hollywood cinema. The DVD has some cool extras, including Hepburn's 1993 documentary self-portrait All About Me and a fine study of the Cukor touch by TIME's Richard Schickel. A rare treat is two radio plays of The Philadelphia Story, also with Hepburn, Grant and Stewart...
...many elderly people, hearing problems may lie not in their ears but in their aging brains. Our brains do a masterly job of sorting out signal from noise amid the daily din. Age can diminish this ability, which means that a senior who can hear just fine in a quiet environment may find a busy restaurant to be auditory chaos...