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Moreover, the children themselves, left unschooled in the arts of delayed gratification and self-help, may be more hurt than helped by their parents' love. Betty Frain, a psychotherapist specializing in working with families and co-author of Becoming a Wise Parent for Your Grown Child, warns that "the downside for grown children [who are being funded] is that they don't develop internal coping skills, and so they feel weak and controlled and continue to be dependent." And often greedy and resentful rather than grateful. Jane Nelsen, a California-based therapist and author of Parents Who Love Too Much...
Deserted by her boyfriend in a Wal-Mart parking lot, the pregnant Novalee Nation (Natalie Portman) takes up residence in the store, where she has her baby. In short order she makes friends (Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd), gets a life (as a photographer) and meets a decent chap (James Frain) she slowly learns to love. To say that Heart is a fable of feminist empowerment is to understate a very sentimental case. But the film is well played, particularly by Portman and Judd (who can't stop having babies), and you may find yourself, against all common sense, surrendering...
...story. But to do that they have to sanctify Hilary's passivity without acknowledging its aggressiveness. That has the unintended consequence of stupefying her and giving Rachel Griffiths an almost impossible role to play. Since Jackie's husband, the potentially litigious Daniel Barenboim (played with boyish inconsequence by James Frain), did not cooperate with this enterprise, that leaves all the emotional energy to Emily Watson's Jackie, who feverishly fills the screen, if not our hearts, with a sort of relentless brattiness--the genius as implacably spoiled child. Inevitably, our sympathy turns to impatience, and one escapes Hilary and Jackie...
...Chicago, Andy Frain Services, a supplier of ushers and ticket takers for concert halls and sports arenas like Comiskey Park, is faced with new recruiting headaches. Says Operations Director James Wronski: "The bonus of * seeing a ball game or hearing a concert used to be enough to attract the workers we needed. We used to sign up half the kids we solicited for jobs. Now it's below...
Died. Andrew Thomas Frain, 60, founder and chief executive of Andy Frain Crowd Engineering Service, the U.S. House of Usher; one of 17 children of a Chicago immigrant hod carrier, who started moving mobs at Black Hawk hockey games in 1923 by using polite, well-paid ($5 a night) college boys, built an elite of white-gloved, blue-and-gold-uniformed six-footers who maintain decorum at some 10,000 events a year, from political conventions (since 1932) and prizefights (Clay-Liston) to funerals (including his); of a heart attack; in Rochester, Minn...