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...Michael's enablers are white folks. Here are the film's main black characters: his crack-addicted mother (Adriane Lenox, who's very good, considering what she's got to work with); a drug lord and his posse who try to derail Michael from his destiny; and a buppie lawyer from the NCAA who investigates a charge that the Tuohys have unfairly steered Michael, who's finally a much-recruited high school star, into the Ole Miss football program. These characters are either lost, evil or suspicious. It's as if blackness were a plague and adoption by whites...
...reclaimed and saved by a caring adult woman. Except that, here, we see the awkward teen through the eyes of his white benefactor. Leigh Anne's first visit to Michael's old neighborhood is treated like Margaret Mead landing on Samoa. She delivers tough love to Michael's mother and tough lip to the local drug lords. At times, she can be caustic to her beloved charge. At the end, as Michael goes off to college, she tells him, "If you get a girl pregnant .... I will cut off your penis." Moviegoers, of whatever race, laugh affectionately at this line...
...abortion advocates are up in arms over the Stupak amendment to the House’s health-care bill. This amendment would prevent federal dollars from subsidizing any health-insurance plan that covers abortion outside of rape, incest, or medical risk to the mother. The main argument put forward against the amendment is that it is, as this page put it, “an outrageous curtailing of lower income women’s right to choose.” By this argument, in depriving these women of their “right to choose...
...Born in 1975 to a wealthy family. Her mother is a Palm Beach, Fla., socialite and her father, who died in 1991, was a successful cable-TV entrepreneur in Alaska. Her grandparents ran New York City's famous El Morocco nightclub in the 1960s...
...lost her fiancé on 9/11 and understandably had a very hard time ... I think she went through what any other person who lost someone does: intense depression, grief and anger. She had something of a breakdown and felt very lost." -Uchitel's mother, identified only as "Susan" (ABCNews.com...