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...Breakfast Club” scenario. Burstein manages to escape the limitations that ensnare the social stereotypes she examines, crafting a wholly believable world in which typically overblown high school problems are carefully counterbalanced by issues that are far more serious. Hannah lives with her grandmother because her mother has been diagnosed with severe depression, a sickness that Hannah fears may have been passed on to her after her boyfriend leaves her and she refuses to attend school. When Hannah’s mother tries to dissuade her from moving to California because she is not “special...
...that she takes the greatest risks, stepping back in time and place to a rural Southern California town in 1978 where military planes and water pollution punctuate the arid desert landscape. Tracing a few months in the life of 12-year-old Ares Ramirez, who lives with his mother and his mentally disabled younger brother Malcolm in a trailer home by the sea, the story is one of alienation and self-discovery. Ares’ childhood and family life are unconventional; his mother eschews the “labels” of psychologists and doctors who would classify Malcolm...
Standing on a riverbank at the border of North Korea and China in 2002, Hyo-Sung Choi spoke by telephone to his mother three years after he thought she had died. “I cried for half an hour,” said Choi, who relayed his experiences fleeing from North Korea to members of the Harvard community in Emerson Hall yesterday, at an event that was part of the Harvard Undergraduates for Human Rights in North Korea’s (HRiNK) Awareness Week. Unfortunately, Choi’s moment of joy passed quickly. Choi had been held against...
...onscreen chemistry. Children grow up, and their star power rarely lasts. But when the meat turns cold and heads for the B-list, Iris is still sitting at the high table, waiting for another helping of Kobe beef.The Times’ article quotes River Phoenix’s mother as saying, “[Burton] was like a mother bear when it came to protecting these kids—not just my kids, but all the talent she represented.” In the case of most child actors, though, another parent is the last thing they need.Subjected to just...
...Petersburg following his mother’s strange midnight call to his apartment in London. “Come tomorrow. Promise me,” she had demanded with mysterious urgency the night before. Gabriel obeys, traveling to Russia and taxiing over to her apartment only to find his mother dead on the floor. All similarities to Dan Brown, thankfully, stop there. Instead of the murder mystery suggested by the novel’s first few chapters, Docx gives us a dark, intriguing, thoughtful study of the ripples that emanate from Maria Glover’s death, which?...