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...Kingsley in Searching for Bobby Fischer: "I'm a reclusive chess master, isolated from human feeling. But I'll tutor a seven-year-old chess prodigy who's as cute as a Keane portrait. He will win my heart and teach me how to love life...
...ORDINARY BOY HAS WON AN EXTRAORDINARY victory. After two days of emotionally charged -- and televised -- testimony, Florida Circuit Judge Thomas S. Kirk granted Gregory Kingsley, 12, his dearest wish: to be "divorced" from his natural parents and adopted by George and Lizabeth Russ, the foster family he has come to love...
...mother's less than perfect parenting, it was Gregory's small clear voice declaring "I'm doing it for me, so I can be happy" that resonated in the courtroom. In the past eight years, the child had spent just seven months with his mother. While a weeping Rachel Kingsley listened, he recalled how she often came home drunk and kept a stash of marijuana "in a brown box on a table in the living room." At the end, the courtroom broke into applause as . Judge Kirk announced, "Gregory, you're the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russ at this...
...lose their elusive electronic grail the requisite number of times, often surprisingly. Their larger obligation, however, is not to the implausible plot but to their funky characters, and to the nice, wistful mood of the film. They all share a nostalgia for '60s idealism; even their nemesis (Ben Kingsley) operates out of a dark variant on those quixotic beliefs...
...this more enlightened age we no longer deny the boon of tears to half our population, nor the joys of honest labor to the other half. Today, doubly reversing Kingsley, women must work -- or else -- and men, far from keeping a stiff upper lip, must "let it all hang out," especially if they hope to get ahead in politics. There are cogent historical precedents...