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...landscapist turned up after six weeks and told Stieglitz that he had blown every cent of it buying a waterless island in Maine, and that his wife was expecting. The chosen few who got to show at Stieglitz's galleries were not members of a stable but rather part foster children and part co-explorers. "Remember my fight for O'Keeffe and Marin is my fight for you as well," he wrote to the frail and self-doubting Demuth. "We're all in one boat unsinkable...
...almost hear the pitch for Fisher's screenplay, currently in production and now fleshed out in his memoir: Dickens in Cleveland! The Color Purple, but true and male and set in the 1960s! The facts of his life have a movie-of-the-week ring: relentlessly abusive foster care; redemption through military service; and irrepressible intellect. But detailed accounting distinguishes the tale, and Fisher's searing, luminous portrait of his childhood transcends the familiar, as does his retroactive (and likely hard-won) tenderness toward the boy no one else loved...
...loud as it deserved to be. After Bridgewater handed out her share of awards she then sang a brief bit of "Happy Birthday" to mark co-presenters Charlotte Church's 15th birthday. Church responded with a brief aria. Impressed bby Church's performance, co-host David Foster added in his two cent by quipping "I'm gonna go home and slap my 15 year-old. No, that's not true. Yes, it is." Maybe that's why you don't see this stuff on television...
...competition, no perfection, just total self-expression," she says. "The children can be an eagle or a mountain or greet the sun." Kemesha Adkins, a sophomore at a public school for high-risk kids in West Hollywood, fell behind in her grades after leaving her troubled home for foster care; she found yoga helped her cope. "I can let out all my anger through the different poses," she says. "Yesterday I went home crying. Then I started doing the exercises, and it calmed me down...
Sometimes names are changed to protect the innocent, and sometimes names are changed just enough to ensure you know exactly who the "innocent" are. Following the rich tradition that flows from Charles Foster Kane to Layla, RUSSELL CROWE, in his guise as rock star, has written a song that may say everything, or nothing, about his relationship with Proof of Life co-star Meg Ryan. Wendy, written for Crowe's band 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, contains the lyrics, "Wendy's got a little boy/Someone to keep in mind for the future/She's got no husband who cares...