Word: orphaning
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...Capturing both the intimacy and detachment of photography, Jones' breakthrough novel Sixty Lights (2004) might well have been subtitled I Am a Camera. A snapshot of 19th century Australian orphan Lucy Strange, who picks up the camera to make sense of her curious, off-kilter life in London and Bombay, the book limned the early history of photography while foreshadowing the advent of the moving image. Strange by name and nature, Sixty Lights risked alienating readers but ultimately dazzled with its precise image-making, from a gentleman's top hat set aflame in gaslight London, a dhoti-flapping Indian impaled...
...BRAD PITT, 42, who for months have been cozily co-parenting two international adoptees, Cambodian-born MADDOX, 4, and Ethiopian-born ZAHARA MARLEY, 1. The oft denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston split because he wanted to start a family. Enter irresistible, orphan-toting U.N. spokeswoman Jolie, and by December, a smitten Pitt was formally adopting Maddox and Zahara. Jolie has said she would like to adopt again. Apparently, the couple's shared dream of a U.N.-style playroom has only just begun...
...YOUR HUSBAND HAVE ALSO ADOPTED A RWANDAN ORPHAN. HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? Well, we haven't officially adopted him. We work with refugees in London, and one day we met this wonderful Rwandan lad who was 15 at the time. He had been through some awful things. He's 19 now. I don't like nuclear families. I think it's very good to look beyond your tribe...
...captures the novel's satire, melodrama and horror-movie suspense without undercutting any of those disparate tones. Gillian Anderson is haunting as Lady Dedlock, a claimant tormented by the mystery of a long-lost lover. But the emotional heart of the story is Esther (Anna Maxwell Martin), the sensible orphan caught up in the suit. This is law drama such as Boston Legal's David E. Kelley can only dream about...
...Smith costar Brad Pitt, 42, have decided to procure a new baby the old-fashioned way. The very public but oft-denied romance began amid rumors that Pitt and his ex-wife Jennifer Aniston separated because he wanted to start a family and Aniston did not. Enter that irresistible, orphan-toting United Nations spokeswoman Jolie on the 2005 set of Smith, and by last December a smitten Pitt was formally adopting Maddox and Zahara. Jolie, who is in the Dominican Republic filming The Good Shepherd with Matt Damon, has said she would like to adopt again. Apparently the couple...