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...Well, his movies were popular, with big grosses on spare budgets, but it's better to find literary analogues. In his facility for spinning the fullest comedy out of the frailest situation, he was the movies' version of playwright Alan Ayckbourn. The stay-at-home dad morphed into Mr. Mom; the annoying guy next to you became the Steve Martin-John Candy hit Planes, Trains and Automobiles. And as a portraitist of teen angst, he was a sunnier Salinger, a comedic S.E. Hinton. Anyway, Hughes was just what Hollywood needed and rarely got: somebody whose films weren't about teenagers...
...Wrongful eviction and Social Security-related issues remain “popular” as well. The most noteworthy case I worked on involved a woman whose welfare benefits were terminated after bureaucrats determined that taking her mom to chemotherapy wasn’t a “good excuse” for missing a job training program; her case is still awaiting resolution...
...Organic Farms, connects cash-strapped travelers with farms in need of extra hands. The lodging-for-labor combo means volunteers pay only for transportation, plus a small fee for access to host-farm listings in one of the 92 countries through wwoof.org Rita Garand, a stay-at-home mom in Montreal, loved her stint on a lavender farm in Italy this May, where her family spent five hours a day weeding. But would-be WWOOFers should ask about specifics, advises Mark Phillips, a Boston sales associate who had to work 10-hour days on a French farm...
Until now, Rowe's role in the children's lives has been by her own admission minimal. In a 2003 documentary, Jackson's ex-wife said, "My kids don't call me Mom, because I don't want them to. They're Michael's children." Filmmaker Bryan Michael Stoller, a friend of Jackson's, recalls visiting Neverland during a Prince Michael birthday celebration. "Michael came in with three boxes, and the first thing he said to Prince was, 'These are from Debbie for your birthday.' It was not like, 'These are from your mother,' " Stoller told TIME. "And of course...
...matter, this is a horror movie - is one he somehow survives, making him a figure of veneration to a small cult believing he can cure all ailments. That's the hope of Father Hyun's feeble school chum Kang-woo (Shin Ha-kyun), who lives with his termagant mom and his strangely silent, sullen young wife Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin). What the family doesn't know is that the experiment has turned the good father into a vampire. The condition's benefits - he can bend lamp posts, scale high walls - don't always outweighs its liabilities. The food supply...