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...carnivalization" of sports events in the '80s and '90s, when fans began dressing in team colors and costumes, and performing dancelike activities like the "wave." Then there are all the festivities that have emerged spontaneously: the Burning Man Festival, the Berlin Love Parade and Halloween as an occasion for grownup revelry. We seem to be impelled, almost instinctively and even in the absence of surviving traditions, to create occasions for communal...
...children's classic Charlotte's Web, in theaters this month, and the gritty indie Hound Dog, which will screen at the Sundance Film Festival in January--represent opposite ends of the young star's growing oeuvre. Fanning told TIME's Rebecca Winters Keegan about enduring her awkward stage, tackling grownup themes and selling Girl Scout cookies...
...Getting to play with a grownup, or just listen in on their porch conversations, teaches children more about becoming one. Summer is a stage, where we rehearse for the dramas that winter brings. Nothing is for keeps; you can mess up your lines, try a new costume, improvise. Embarrassment evaporates faster in this heat, you live in the moment, don't hold grudges, and so it's easier to take risks, and not take yourself seriously...
...stuff of which crappy reality TV is made. But Parkhurst (The Dogs of Babel) has fashioned an entertaining, unexpectedly wise novel about contestants on an Amazing Race--esque show: a pair of devout Christians struggling with temptation, an estranged mom and daughter, high school sweethearts and two grownup, washed-up child stars. Her tender, witty prose catches things no camera could...
...have either matured past age 18 behind bars or been freed. Some kids--including three Afghans thought to be 10, 12 and 13 when they arrived--were segregated from adults, allowed to play sports and given lessons. But in many ways, they were viewed as no different from their grownup fellow inmates. In April 2003 General Richard Myers, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the three "may be juveniles but they're not on a Little League team anywhere. They're on a major-league team, and it's a terrorist team, and they're in Guant?...