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Remember the silly tune from summer camp? The songs that were popular when you were courting? Or the hymn that was sung when your best friend died? Life without music would be pretty dull, and sometimes we lose sight of how powerful melody and rhythm can be in the realm of medicine, particularly with respect to Alzheimer's patients and their caregivers...
...Snapper A fractious Dublin family faces an awkward fact: the eldest daughter is soon to give birth to an illegitimate baby. This crowded, wayward, funny film, written by Roddy Doyle and directed by Stephen Frears, is a hymn to family values without any of the usual piety. It gives Colm Meaney, as the $ emotionally hard-pressed father, the role of a lifetime...
...have no shame in saying that.” Pundits declared the admissions an “outrage.” But I think his alleged ignorance wasn’t their real problem. People are always asking me, “How can he move from a gospel hymn straight into a song in which juicing a woman is analogized to smoking drugs?” R deftly diffuses the paradox with a simple analogy: “It’s like how you see a lot of fat people at health clubs.” He?...
...brought it to world prominence with 15 national and international tours, 850 weekly radio concerts for the CBS network's Music and the Spoken Word, 50 record albums that totaled 4 million in sales, and even a hit single (the chorus's 1959 recording of Battle Hymn of the Republic); in Salt Lake City...
Murderball is no Rocky-esque hymn to the human spirit. It's more like a prison movie; the guys on the quad rugby Team USA have the grizzled machismo of lifers. Or sports studs. Mark Zupan, right, goateed and tattooed, is as focused as any pro lineman. And Joe Soares, who runs the Canadian team, has the martinet tone of an NFL coach. Soares went north after the U.S. dropped him from the squad. There's bad blood, and it will be spilled...