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...prostate cancer, and they're the same self-involved, officious, spiteful curs they were before they had prostate cancer. And bully for them. Having cancer is bad enough--you don't have to turn yourself into St. Francis of Assisi or Forrest Gump...
...Steven Spielberg, the film promises to be a sly adventure, full of twists and surprises, comparable to The Sixth Sense. Zemekis has wrapped his production in a shroud of secrecy, although the film is said to boast computer effects and shocks in the tradition of his earlier films Forrest Gump and the dubious Death Becomes Her. But even though Internet surfers are buzzing with conspiracy theories of their own about the film's plotline, test screenings have been less than spectacular...
...closely inspected the data--an activity he accused me of undertaking solely to avoid planning our August itinerary--I started to wonder whether any of the 12,338 vacationers who were surveyed actually traveled with children. "It's funny you should ask," said Brooks Gump, a psychologist at the State University of New York in Oswego who reported the findings. "We have no information on that, but a lot of people have talked to me about the stress involved in vacationing with children...
...Gump, like many other parents, sticks to "places with lots of kids' activities." The top family destinations are theme parks, beaches and historic sites. That sounded awful. Whatever happened, I wondered, to that kids' activity of my youth: playing quietly while your mother enjoys a gin and tonic on the hotel porch before dinner...
...claims to enjoy traveling with his six children, ages 6 to 12. A stint as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam prepared him for this challenge: "You learn to keep your cool." But Komisarjevsky, co-author with his wife Reina of Peanut Butter and Jelly Management (Amacom; $17), agreed with Gump. Says Chris: "Remember it's a vacation for the kids. That's different from a vacation for adults without children--which, of course, you should also take." That I knew already...