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...LATEST PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1? THE unwed mom. "The epidemic of illegitimacy is our most serious social problem," says Bill Clinton. "It drives everything else," says Charles Murray, the conservative sociologist--"crime, drugs, poverty, illiteracy, welfare, homelessness...
...know if there's more than one outthere, but mine saved me life, my sanity andcountless trips home. We may not need mom and dadaround so much anymore, but as Western Unionconstantly reminds us, everybody needs somebodysometime...
...have access to video camera and don't mind the risk of burglary, you might consider bringing it. Film each other on the night of your house formals: Mom and Dad are at home, and someone has to take their place...
...anything to get your attention. It's friendly but still has teeth, like The Prince of Tides with its theme of family violence barely concealed in Southern blarney. Beach Music's Jack McCall has his own troublesome clan in South Carolina. His father the Judge is a brilliant drunk. Mom is a former striptease dancer, feisty cancer patient and savior of threatened loggerhead turtles. McCall's brothers include a hermit who lives in a tree house. Friends are also conspicuously memorable: a former beauty queen who writes film scripts, the grandson of a Jewish store owner who becomes a Hollywood...
...PHONE, HER mom tells a story I'veheard many times from Tracey already. "We lived ina farm house in Illinois, and we went through onewinter there. This house had no electricity. Wehad to use lanterns that you'd use oil in and burnwood in a coal stove. That was the worst winter.It snowed real deep. We had frost on the walls,and the Christmas tree glistened it was so cold.So we took down the bathroom door and made it intofirewood...