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This enchanting chatterbox, with the round face and electrified hair of a Madrid muppet, makes you believe the oldest myth of cinema: that the magic is real, that movie people in person are as delightful, as bigger-than-life, as they are on the giant screen. Thus the truest compliment to pay his movies--those tangy, nourishing stews of bent men and brave women, of comedy and melodrama, passion and grief--is to say they are every bit as beguiling as he is. And the only thing to say about his new film, All About My Mother, is that...
...irony, of course, is that the affliction of adolescence is traditionally marked by a pronounced sense of isolation. At some critical moment in every proto-adult life comes a lonely, anguished, heartfelt plea: "Nobody understands me!" How can today's teens truly experience this tortured rite of passage when marketers seek them out relentlessly and programmers understand them so well? And with all those Hollywood talent scouts and Silicon Valley headhunters hunting them down and signing them up, why would they even care if their parents understand them at all? Even the lonely losers of yesteryear are no longer locked...
...word for life in Spanish ought to be Almodovar. As in Pedro, the writer-director and all-round vital force in two decades of mostly terrific movies. He loves to tell stories, whether in his 13 features or across a restaurant table...
...life can now return to bustling normality. He will continue with his comic-book writing, scripts for Miramax and Warner Bros. (a Superman draft didn't work out) and a prime-time cartoon version of Clerks for, of course, Disney. "It's just rife with irony, isn't it?" he says. "Let's see if we can deliver the PG my mother was always lookin' for." But his biggest project is to enjoy time with his new wife Jennifer Schwalbach, a former writer for USA Today, and their newborn daughter Harley Quinn. "I want to take the next year...
...mother should do everything she can in the early months of her baby's life to be the primary caregiver and to give her child the benefits of a confident attachment. That bond can then be strengthened by finding quality child care with trained, concerned staff and a good ratio of no more than three babies to each adult. It's also wise to choose caregivers who will give you loads of information about your child's day. Some day-care centers have parents fill out a chart on their baby's status in the morning (how he has slept...