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...desperation, they've been talking through different scenarios for an ouster and how Brown's departure could be explained to the electorate. On a rare sunny day this month, just before parliament rose for its long summer recess, MPs and party activists occupied every table at the riverside terrace bar of the House of Commons. The breeze was gentle, but their conversation was brutal. "Prime Ministers have been known to suffer health problems," mused one plotter...
...stories of the people onscreen--to (it's not a bad word) entertain. Nowhere is this itch to Hollywoodize reality clearer than in American Teen, director Nanette Burstein's account of one year, 2005--06, in the lives of four high school seniors in Warsaw, Ind. It's the rare documentary that could score at the box office, and not just because Paramount Vantage, its distributor, is pushing it hard. You're likely to have an absorbing, unsettling time at American Teen, for it seduces even as it sparks suspicions about the motives of Burstein and her young stars...
...cheating and--a more intimate betrayal--secretly getting reports from her psychiatrist on her therapy sessions. (She used a session on the couch to relay a message to Don that she knew about his skirt-chasing.) His former secretary, Peggy (Elisabeth Moss), is climbing the ladder as a rare female copywriter at Sterling Cooper, but at the cost of having given away her out-of-wedlock baby. The daddy, Pete (Vincent Kartheiser)--a weaselly rich boy who tried to blackmail Don into promoting him after learning the truth about his past--is suffering the apparent karmic payback of being unable...
...vigorous older man leads a party of hikers along a mountain trail, pauses beside a waterfall, naps under a tree after a sandwich-and-soft-d rink lunch. A typical day in the country--except when the hale sexagenarian happens to be Pope John Paul II, taking a rare and precious break from papal responsibilities. His doctor is known to have repeatedly urged him to get more exercise, and he has long had an enthusiasm for outdoor activity. The outing, with his secretary, Stanislaw Dziwisz, some friends and ever present bodyguards, apparently took place last year during his summer vacation...
...consider the infant as a candidate for transplant. The hospital had apparently concluded that Jesse's young, unwed parents--Deana Binkley, 17, and Jesse Sepulveda, 26, of Pasadena--were incapable of providing him with the exhaustive care he would require after surgery. The infant had been born with a rare, fatal condition called hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, in which the heart's main pumping chamber is improperly developed. Without a transplant at Loma Linda, the only institution in the area that performs such surgery on infants, doctors said Jesse would die in a matter of weeks. The impending tragedy...