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...promises--were driving him closer to danger in a war they didn't understand. His mother cried when she saw a newspaper photo of soldiers sleeping in a ditch they dug for themselves during the initial push into Iraq. Pae made light of it--"They looked comfortable to me, Mom." But to this day, her worrying abides--pride and fear marching step for step. "Every time I read a newspaper article or see on TV these boys dying, on both sides," she says through an interpreter, "my heart hurts." Her voice cracks on that last phrase. A devout Catholic...
...Junior Achiever,” a teenage slacker’s mom hires a lifestyle coach to get him out of the house. When she ends up sleeping with the coach, hilarity ensues. The film, like most of Johnson’s work at Harvard, is about his life and friends in South Texas, appealing to the same type of stoner ethos found in his favorite movie, “The Big Lebowski...
...makes you define seemingly important moments in your non-baseball life by baseball-related events. The first time you kissed a girl—also the night Butch Huskey hit two home runs and actually stole a base. The day you learned your Mom got that big promotion—also the day you saw Mark Clark take a no-hitter into the eighth...
...years old when Star Wars was released in May 1977. I don't remember the first time I saw it, but I do remember that I forced my mom to take me so many times that she eventually began to sleep through it. Sometimes I would poke her before one of the more exhilarating moments--Han Solo killing the bounty hunter Greedo; Han making the jump to light speed in his jalopy, the Millennium Falcon; Han doing just about anything--and her eyes would momentarily flutter. I was so astonished she could sleep through the movie that I was worried...
...Fire, which my parents cruelly sold to me and my brother as "a movie about racing." My first non-kid's movie was Corvette Summer, the 1978 embarrassment I wanted to see solely because it starred Mark Hamill. "He won't be anything like Luke Skywalker in this one," Mom said. I wouldn't budge...