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...media to focus on the kindness and strength of the human spirit that we are seeing now. Just as with 9/11 and the Indian Ocean tsunami, good can come out of disaster. We have some tough choices ahead. I pray that we make the right ones. Jane LaBreche Hebert Friendswood, Texas...
...standout handbags - now in funky combinations of straw, plastic, canvas and patent leather. At Bottega Veneta, designer Tomas Maier paired sterling silver?ornamented velvet handbags with simple dresses in dusty shades of khaki and stone.And Miuccia Prada made a strong case for the new simplicity with her plain-Jane, drop-waisted dresses in a palette of chalk, gray and blush pink. Her models walked the runway in patent-leather platform shoes, clutching huge handbags or dragging the ultimate luxury accessory behind them: a magenta suitcase in opalescent crocodile. A sure sign that fashion is once again taking flight...
Though the release of a debut feature film might be cause for self-congratulation among some directors, I was pleasantly surprised to find Jane Anderson humble and unassuming. Not only did Ms. Anderson—noting that the café her publicists had set aside for the interview was freezing—spontaneously invite two other college journalists and me up to her hotel room; she was remarkably open and honest in describing the hopes she had and the challenges she faced in making her movie...
...Jane Anderson: I’m not a Midwesterner, but I have enormous respect for the Midwest sensibility. The thing about the Midwest is that it’s a farm culture, and the farmers know that if their crops are destroyed by drought or locust or freezing, they can’t sit on their porch and cry about it. They have to get back on the tractor and plow the field. And it’s that kind of sensibility that I admire, and that’s Evelyn Ryan’s sensibility. Some people call...
While Evelyn may be too one-dimensional, this is more than can be said of the children characters. The way in which screenwriter and director Jane Anderson constantly positions the faceless (and mostly nameless) flock around and generally below Evelyn succeeds at reinforcing their adoration of her, but fails to give any sense of a sorely lacking intimacy between them. And though she squeezes in a few incongruous moments of one-on-one, mother-child interaction, they cannot be appreciated when the children themselves are awkwardly underdeveloped. Terry, or “Tuff” as they call...