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...Brody plays the leading-man version of that guy in the $10 million picture In the Land of Women, which opens April 20. As a pouty, heartsick soft-porn screenwriter who moves to Michigan to take care of his grandmother, Brody winds up making out with both the hot mom across the street (Meg Ryan) and her teenage daughter (Kristen Stewart). And somehow he does something that creepy while still seeming like a really nice guy. The same innocent charm made him an US magazine fixture as The O.C's breakout star: the sarcastic but decent one. "Adam...
...instead of being impatient and rude, why can’t Harvard health providers handle sexually active college kids as professionally and carefully as they might treat the saintly first-time mom? She too is responsible for her pain and discomfort, but she isn’t blamed for it. She, like the college kid, is probably bewildered and terrified...
...Fifty years ago, parenting was so much simpler for Asian men. As the sole breadwinner, a dad's responsibilities typically ceased the moment he crossed the threshold of his home and flopped into his favorite chair, while mom dealt with the dinner and the children. "The father in the previous generation was more aloof, removed from the family and emotionally more detached," says Daniel Wong, a University of Hong Kong professor of social welfare and author of a 2003 study on the stresses faced by dads. Says Benjamin Naden, a client manager at Microsoft in Singapore who sometimes snatches...
...single mom (Penélope Cruz, above left) hears rumors that her dead mother (Carmen Maura) is haunting their hometown. This unlocks closets full of family secrets and director Pedro Almodóvar's unique mix of earthy wit and fire. So maybe he's not working at quite the apogee of emotion and cinematic daring of his All About My Mother and Talk to Her. That makes Volver only about the sixth best film of the past decade...
...home during spring break last week, getting my mom hooked on Maury Povich and basking in the greatness that is the moment just before a revealed paternity test result, I took a second to realize just exactly what was going on. As much as I tried to rationalize my enjoyment of such spectacles by reasoning that there’s no way that they could be real—people can’t be that dumb or embarrassing—when it came down to it, I was deriving enjoyment from the misery (or in the case of guys...