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DIED. JACK SHEA, 91, gold-medal-winning Olympic speed skater; of injuries from a car accident; in Saranac Lake, N.Y. Shea, who won two gold medals in 1932 but refused to skate in the 1936 Olympics in Hitler's Germany, became the patriarch of the nation's first family of three generations of Olympians. His son competed in three skiing events in 1964, and a month ago, his grandson earned a spot on the U.S. Olympic skeleton team, in which sledders go headfirst down...
America lost more than a businessman Monday night when Dave Thomas, patriarch of the fast food giant Wendy's, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 69. It lost a social activist, author, and an instantly-recognizable TV personality. Thomas, who lost a lengthy battle with liver cancer, was a leading proponent of adoption awareness, and dedicated much of his time and wealth to the cause. He was also a celebrity of sorts, as the result of appearing in the burger chain's humorous commercials. In addition, he authored two books detailing his life, success...
...these smarties need a good shaking up, and that's the function of their estranged patriarch Royal (Hackman), who reappears in their lives after his own shady career has fallen to tatters. They're not especially happy to see him, but we surely are. For Hackman embodies the energy and outrage the rest of this rather twee family lacks. Royal stirs them all to life, and this great, bumptious performance by an actor gleefully rediscovering his funny bone stirs us to appreciative life too. As with Anderson's Rushmore, there's a certain annoying preciousness to this film...
...home for raping schoolgirls. Vargas Llosa plants Trujillo securely in his time and place, but the book's dictator also crosses temporal and physical boundaries to remind us that tyranny remains the source of Latin America's best fiction. Like Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Autumn of the Patriarch, The Feast of the Goat confirms Balzac's observation that the novel is the private history of nations...
...political lions, The Kennedy Men, 1901-1963 stops at the assassination of John F. Kennedy ’40. Along the way it mines much of the same territory as Doris Kearns Goodwin’s 1987 The Fitzgeralds and the Kennedys. Stick with Goodwin for the goods on patriarch Joseph Kennedy, Sr.; Leamer’s treatment here is so glowing that it veers into cliché. Leamer does provide a deeper look at what made Robert and Ted Kennedy tick, going beyond the overemphasis on John Kennedy that is all too frequent in Kennedy family histories. Thanks...