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...adorable people fighting to beat the odds against them, that it's surprising it took six years for it to get to the big screen. Maybe prospective producers were reluctant to buck the prevailing wisdom of a conventional happy ending. Anyway, here is the film version, directed by Robert Schwentke. It's soppy enough to suit the requirements of the weepie genre, and there's a music score that tries to cue all the emotions in viewers, as if they're incapable of locating their own feelings. But the movie also has an aching solidity that allows you to surrender...
...Just One More Chance In 1955, the first official year of rock 'n' roll, the hits stopped coming. A nice married couple was suddenly sooooo 1954. Paul looked less like a genius-guitarist than an irrelevant uncle. Paul and Ford did commercials for the Robert Hall clothing chain ("When the values go up, up, up/ And the prices go down, down, down") and Rheingold Beer. They broke up the act - and their marriage. (Ford died at 52 in 1976.) Paul pretty much retired. He survived quintuple-bypass heart surgery. It was one of the first operations of its kind - another...
...favorite patterns that I think you can see in the Arctic explorers in the 1800s and early 1900s was a very dignified approach to everything they did, even in dying. They were oftentimes amazingly collected in the notes they left behind in their journals. [Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon] Scott is one of the better examples of that. On his return from the South Pole, he was only 15 miles or so from a supply dump that would have saved his life and the lives of his two remaining companions at that time. And they just couldn't do it. They...
...commencement speaker, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, did not focus specifically on the tasks at hand in Iraq and Afghanistan. Instead, he strove to arm those cadets with an ideal of leadership, telling them, “I've come to believe that few people are born great leaders. When all is said and done, the kind of leader you become is up to you, based on the choices you make.” He characterized a leader as someone willing to understand and care for those led, but more importantly, as someone who has “moral courage...
...recently as last month, drinking parents seemed to be all the rage. On the bookshelves: Stefanie Wilder-Taylor's Naptime Is the New Happy Hour, Robert Wilder's Daddy Needs a Drink and Chris Mancini's Pacify Me, the cover of which shows a six-pack consisting of five beers and one milk bottle. A pacifier dangles from one of the brews...