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...favorite hero and budding father figure. But there are differences between reel life and real life. The boy writes a certain word on a piece of paper and asks the man to say it out loud. Jack declines the challenge, and Danny knows why. "You can't," the lad crows. "You can't possibly say it! Because this movie...
...Queen Elizabeth (Quentin Crisp) deeds a great English manor to handsome young Lord Orlando (Tilda Swinton) on one condition: "Do not fade, do not wither, do not grow old." The lad takes the monarch's admonition to heart and, miraculously, ages not at all from that day to this. Orlando is a fellow in love with love -- ever eager to die upon a kiss, but destined to live forever apart from those mortals he cherishes. In 1610 he falls for a fickle Russian princess (Charlotte Valandrey). One day, a century and a half later, he wakes...
...poor immigrant lad arrives in the U.S. with nothing in his luggage but talent, a dream and the capacity for hard work. He overcomes prejudice, stuffy conservatives in his profession and a debilitating accident that should have left him crippled for life. Along the way, he acquires a sweet and understanding wife who not only comforts him but also inspires him in adversity...
...YEARS AUDIENCES HAVE CRIED AT THE SIGHT OF the undersized lad bearing a single crutch who rides atop his father's shoulder. But Charles Dickens never revealed just what is wrong with Tiny Tim Cratchit, whose life is in chronic peril each Christmas. American pediatric neurologist Donald Lewis apparently couldn't take it anymore. After examining the literature, literally, on Tim, Dr. Lewis has come up with a professional diagnosis: distal renal tubular acidosis. According to A Christmas Carol, Tiny Tim lives to enjoy Christmases Yet to Come, thanks to a reformed Scrooge and his trio of conscience-raising phantoms...
There was always something childlike, therefore forgivable, in his appetites. They were of a piece with his whimsical enthusiasms -- for a new project (or a series of last-minute changes in an old one) or a new bauble (he was a Jewish lad who loved Christmas, each year turning it into a production that rivaled his movies in prodigality). As Thomson puts it, "It was the speed with which he changed his mind that amounted to genius...