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...killed my mother when I was four years old," Lily says at the beginning of the film. "That's all I know about myself." For the past 10 years, she has been raised by - been the prisoner of - her father T. Ray (Paul Bettany), who runs a peach farm. Lily is dreamy, wistful, self-hating and suicidal; T. Ray is a sullen beast, punishing the girl by making her kneel on grits (coarse-ground corn meal, to those of you - those of me - who are ignorant of Southern cuisine). Lily has her own roiling karma. No question...
...film is full of sweet, subtle touches. In the book Lily daydreams of meeting her mother Deborah in heaven; and after 10,000 years telling Lily she was not to blame for her death, Deborah would spend the next 10,000 fixing the girl's ratty hair. ("She would brush it into such a tower of beauty, people all over heaven would drop their harps just to admire it.") The movie doesn't make a big declamatory deal of this, but after a few days with the Boatwrights, Lily looks magically presentable, pretty - because for once she's been cared...
...Ritchie's mother, Lady Amber Leighton, declined comment this afternoon when reporters gathered outside of her home in west London, saying: "We are not talking to press...
...strange situation," observes a 29 year-old shoe-store clerk and mother of one, who asks not to be named. "Zalaegerszeg is a factory town that may soon have no factories. Many people here will have to go to Austria or the U.K. for work." But despite the mounting anxiety, few blame the global forces that have exacerbated Zalabaromfi's predicament. As the IMF offers Hungary financial and technical assistance to stem the flow of millions of dollars in foreign investment out of the country, and to help steady the nation's sinking currency, Hungarians are pointing fingers at people...
John McCain was not quite 2 years old when his parents despaired of managing his tantrums; he would go into a "mad frenzy," he says, holding his breath until he passed out and fell to the floor. A Navy doctor offered a prescription: whenever McCain erupted, his mother would shout to his father, "Get the water!" Then his parents would fill a bathtub with cold water and drop their fully clothed son in. "Eventually," McCain recalls in his memoirs, "I achieved a satisfactory (if only temporary) control over my emotions...