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MOST YOUNG CHILDREN LIKE TO play dress-up, parading around the house in their dad's wing tips or smearing their mom's lipstick all over their face. But for a few youngsters, usually boys, this childhood rite is more than a game. They are obsessed with their mother's clothes and wear them at every opportunity. It is as if a part of their mind were trying to erase the maleness of their body and allow an inherent femaleness to emerge. As they grow older, their discomfort with their gender often increases, until finally they turn to doctors...
...slaphappy phase of their revolution, killing regulations simply because they can. Indeed, the nursing-home industry has not even asked for regulatory relief, in part because it would allow unscrupulous operators to flourish and bring shame on all of them. But Speaker Gingrich is hurtling along, fearless about sending Mom and Dad back to the future, to the day of nursing homes that lack nurses and feel nothing like home...
Here he's Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter with a pretty, peckish wife (Helena Bonham Carter) and, to his joy, a five-year-old adopted son Max. Curious about the boy's lineage, Lenny finds Max's natural mom, Linda (Mira Sorvino), a prostitute who also does porn work. How can this lost soul, with her Vargas body and "state-of-the-art fellatrics," be the wellspring of a brilliant child? Lenny must save this creature, for Max and from herself. His anguished pursuit of Linda, in which he tries mating her with a dim boxer (Michael Rapaport), is tracked...
...small cohort does not seem to bother them, since most report that their journeys here were made largely on their own. David Syverson, 29, a first-year seminarian baptized as a Lutheran in North Dakota, says of his decision, "This is really going against what society believes in. Mom and Dad were shocked, though they eventually accepted it." John Stimler, 25, an entering seminarian from Decatur, Illinois, notes that the celibacy business puzzled his friends and acquaintances: "People, especially young people, have difficulty comprehending how you can live without sex. 'Oh, boy! Strange bird here...
...Cruise certainly work hard on their marriage; last week in Tuscany she commuted to the Portrait set while he played Mr. Mom with their two adopted children. Kidman acts as a blocking guard for Cruise's membership in the Church of Scientology: "There are some interesting philosophies that Scientology has that are applicable to everyday life," she says cautiously. "My father is open-minded about it, and that's something I aim to be as well." She has also become inured to claims that Cruise is gay: "It used to baffle me. And I got angry, because we were called...