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Medwed tells the story of Daisy Lewis, a middle-aged Harvard mom and Star Market ombudsman who has long served as a host family to Harvard's international students. When Daisy's husband, Henry, ends their marriage after changing his name to Henri and taking a fancy to all things French (including the Lewis' latest student), Daisy's comfortable, familiar life is turned upside down. Fear not for poor Daisy, though-less than 24 hours later she has already met a new man, a parasitologist named Truman Wolff. Ironically, Truman's daughter, Phoebe, is dating Daisy's son, Sammy, leading...
...tries to portray the new American family, with all of its connotations and inconsistencies, but in the end offers nothing more than a superficial, unsatisfying story, lacking in realism. Every "crisis" and action is sugar-coated. Consider, for example, Sammy's response to the news of his parents' divorce: "Mom, most of the kids I know have families that divide and multiply like-well-like the amoebas we study in biology. It's pretty common. Plus, we've been analyzing family structure in Intro to Psych." Who said that classes weren't applicable to real life? Sammy Lewis has certainly...
...television mold as she plays a business-driven character who is essentially the anti-Dharma, and demonstrates a wider range than she was allowed in her previous films (_EdTV_, _Grosse Pointe Blanke_). Rounding out the eclectic cast is the classic Anne Brancroft as Jacob's passionately Jewish mom, and Milos Foreman, (Norton's _The People Vs. Larry Flynt_ director) as an older priest who guides Brian through his personal and religious turmoil...
...teen-romance novels my local library ordered by the series - was too busy to notice. After the accident, Maria was the first name my father could say after he pronounced his own. Hers was the first face he could recognize. Last weekend, when my older sister substituted for our mom at a speech therapy session, my father immediately asked her where her mother was. It is clear to everyone - family, friends, nurses, doctors, therapists, social workers - that in the midst of the confusion and cloudiness that have seized control of my father's consciousness, my mother is the one thing...
...door, repeatedly, does nothing. Knocking turns into banging, yelling and screaming. After half an hour, it is time to surrender and weep at the failure to acquire foodstuffs. Then the feeling hits - the same feeling of finding out that Santa isn't real, that the tooth fairy was actually mom. Realization of this reality obliterates any smidgen of innocence - this beacon of consistency, this paradigm of perpetuity, is not Store 24, but Store...