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Even The Blind Side doesn't have as much on the line as Extraordinary Measures: life or death for the two ailing, adorable kids in the movie and for the thousands like them who will die before they're 10 if a treatment isn't found quick. Does the phrase emotional blackmail come to mind? In theory, an inspirational story about a child facing death by disease is no more or less manipulative than a thriller plot about a man who turns to revenge because his wife and kids were murdered. What matters is the tone: Does it pander...
Eldercare and end-of-life debates often hit families after decades of negotiating nothing more serious than where to spend Thanksgiving. We can be grownups with successful careers and kids of our own, yet all the old stuff ambushes us: sibling rivalry, entrenched roles and resentments, the way our family talked or didn't talk about important things...
...when he was an assistant to pioneering strobe photographer Gjon Mili, Dennis Stock won LIFE magazine's competition for young photographers. Stock was 23. Thanks to talent, persistence and an eye for irony, he climbed the ladder of the profession. Dennis hung around the cooperative agency Magnum until founder Robert Capa invited him to join, and he was still an active member when he died on Jan. 11 at 81. His most memorable photo story was on actor James Dean, with whom he traveled across the country--at one point, Dean decided to pose in an open coffin...
...came from a spiritual family in North Philadelphia, and after a tragic automobile accident in 1982 left him paralyzed from the chest down, the faith he'd inherited from his mother Ida helped sustain him. Despite his own injuries, Teddy dedicated the rest of his life to helping others with spinal-cord trauma. He was our best friend, a great humanitarian and a tremendous musical force. His legacy will live...
Despite being a writer of tough-guy books, Parker was as mushy as a Frank Capra movie when he spoke of his wife Joan, the great love of his life. The pair met when they were 3, came to know each other well in college and were married for 54 years. He spoke of her as if still in the first thrall of romance, and dedicated to her almost every one of his 60-plus books. Once, during a rough patch, they separated for a short while. He was miserable. "I learned that I could live without Joan," he told...