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There are few pleasures greater than watching somebody get yelled at. You loved it when your mom stuck it to your brother, and you love it now, rubbernecking to see a cop pull a car over. One of the best spots for catching good, stern lectures in our authority-free culture is the bench of lower-court judges. These guys can lay into punks and deadbeats like Father Knows Best on a caffeine...
...were first ignored, then scorned. By the early '90s, with AIDS doing its dirty work, gays got to be pitied. But they were typically portrayed as a separate species, the exotic other; and films about them tended to be about their gayness, its birth and death. "It was either 'Mom, I'm coming out of the closet' or 'Oh, my best friend is sick,'" says David Elzer of Trimark, which distributes Kiss. "It was issue, issue, issue. Now we're coming into a new age. Billy's story is universal. Everyone has longed for someone else...
Paula Johnson grew up the daughter of divorced parents in Manassas, Va., outside Washington, and moved to Ruckersville five years ago. Now 30, she is the divorced mother of three boys in addition to the switched daughter. She also has custody of an unrelated 16-year-old girl. "My mom says other kids brought home stray dogs and cats," she says. "I brought home stray people." Johnson raises her family on the $9.07 an hour she earns as a flagger at construction sites. "TV dinners and hamburger casseroles" help make ends meet...
...with her dreaded day before the grand jury over, Monica, as much by instinct as priority, turned to Martin upon arriving on the first floor of the courthouse. "Where's my mom?" she asked. "She's at home," said the Minister of Defense. "Let's get you home...
...Mom, the neighborhood skunks...