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...shot the day before by Israeli troops. Identifying the two as Israelis--the giveaway was the yellow license plate on their car--the impassioned crowd went after them. A rumor spread that they belonged to Israel's so-called Arabized forces, who disguise themselves as Palestinians to hunt radicals on Israel's wanted list...
...decades later, Hyde has figured out how to "pay it forward" big time. This weekend (Oct. 20), her novel Pay It Forward becomes a major film starring Oscar winners Kevin Spacey and Helen Hunt, as well as nominee Haley Joel Osment. Hyde's book, published early this year, is just out in paperback. And across the U.S., kids and some adults are adopting the pay-it-forward philosophy, performing random acts of kindness. "Grownups have a tendency to talk themselves out of things, saying it will never work, but kids are fabulously optimistic," says Hyde, who has watched the ideas...
After Osment signed on to the project, the Oscar winners piled on. Spacey (American Beauty) pulled in Helen Hunt (As Good As It Gets). Hunt is Arlene, Trevor's emotionally bruised mom; Spacey is Eugene, the inspired teacher whose psyche is as scarred as his face. "It's an incredible love story between two scarred people," says Spacey. "These two lost people find each other and fall in love, with Arlene's son helping them along, in the cutest way possible. Sometimes you read scripts and there's a soppy love story, or an uplifting movie-of-the-week feeling...
...course, a victim of the Joan Crawford syndrome: messed up, but as curable, psychologically speaking, as the scarred stars of ancient weepies always were. Like them, he just needs to be loved. And Arlene McKinney (Helen Hunt) is the girl to do it. She, naturally, has her own problems. She's a single mom, a waitress working extra shifts at a topless bar while she struggles with alcoholism; she hides her bottle in a chandelier, just as Ray Milland did in The Lost Weekend. But there's good stuff...
...makers of Pay It Forward know misery must be occasionally relieved. They give Spacey some funny curmudgeonly lines to snap in his American Beauty way. They let him hide his worst scars under his shirt, so they are revealed only when Hunt finally, gently touches them in the half-light of her bedroom. And Osment gets a couple of moments to reveal his inner Beaver...