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...course Baby Mama isn?t his movie. It?s a chick flick, with the emphasis on the hatching. Comedies almost always run out of gas toward the end; the writer is like a parent on Christmas Eve, desperately wrapping up his presents. But this movie finds one last spurt to send the characters and the audience out happy. The closing-credits song, the Ronettes? ?Be My Baby,? never seemed more welcome or appropriate. For this is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across...
...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 as many—if not more—jokes as these child actors are their parents, the “Stage Moms and Dads.” These scary fanatics should bear a large portion of the blame along with Burton...
...figure in Krakauer's best-selling history of the sects, Under the Banner of Heaven, was both "sister wife" to her stepmother and stepgrandmother to herself. They are insular and suspicious. Williams did manage to get that much across in his meeting with the media. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to preserve their children from a traumatic, hostile to them, even abhorrent society?" he asked. "What honorable father and parent would not give their all to protect the innocence of their children?" In 1953 authorities tried to root out the fathers and rescue the children...
...define a politician. Nancy F. Korman, a lesbian who worked with openly gay Congressman Barney Frank ’61 for twelve years, said one’s sexual orientation is not an indicator of success, either in office or elsewhere in life. “You are a parent, you have a child in your arms, the child is critically ill,” Kornan said: “You don’t ask about the sexual orientation of the doctor.” A political candidate—regardless of sexual orientation—should...
...region’s best interest. Just as high prices may lead a backpacker to choose to venture elsewhere this summer, airlines considering Airbus planes and bankers wondering about BMW coupes and Château Lafite Rothschild wines may think twice before purchasing. In fact, Airbus’s parent company European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company announced this week its flagship plane, the A380, will cost five million dollars more starting next month, for it has always been quoted in American currency. In short, a strong euro reduces European exports, which are at the core of many continental economies...