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...Angelina Jolie (daughter of Jon Voight) is a Best Supporting Actress nominee for Girl, Interrupted. How many families can boast parent-child Oscar winners for acting...
Adapted by Delia and Nora Ephron from the former's novel, which drew from their lives, the film is scarcely a tragedy. But it is a meditation on the inconvenience of mortality, about the way a parent's final illness can intrude on his children at the worst possible moment, about how the business of conducting him out of this life with some dignity has to be improvised amid all the distractions of the day: the fender bender, the shrilling of the cell phone, the dog eager to gnaw that phone into silence...
...such, these letters form a touching picture of two writers who are good at giving advice but bad at taking their own. Vido's father, ever the concerned parent, advises, "Don't be afraid of being an artist. D.H. Lawrence was an artist through and through; and, for the time being at any rate, you should think as Lawrence. Remember what he used to say, 'Art for my own sake. If I want to write, I write--and if I don't want to, I won't.'" Reciprocating his father's cheerleading, Vido spends much of his letters earnestly bolstering...
...about. The critical question then becomes not what profession to pursue, but instead how, through that profession, can I act on my commitment to be an agent of social change? Even if medical school isn't in my future, I know that in whatever I do, as a student, parent or professional, it's critical to continue to translate my personal idealism into practice--to combine my individual expertise with those around me, doctors, I-Bankers, lawyers, students and more, to create coordinated and innovative programs to strengthen communities and cherish America's families...
...realization that the one-size-fits-all model of marriage may have been one of the biggest sources of tension between the sexes all along--based as it is on the wildly unrealistic expectation that a single spouse can meet one's needs for a lover, friend, co-parent, financial partner, reliably, 24-7. Instead there will be renewable marriages, which get re-evaluated every five to seven years, after which they can be revised, recelebrated or dissolved with no, or at least fewer, hard feelings. There will be unions between people who don't live together full-time...