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...Warren's novel, Burden is Stark's equal, and the restoration of that balance is important to the movie's success. Commentators on Warren's work often say that it's a study in how power corrupts, and that Willie is essentially a good man ruined by dictatorial depravity. Sean Penn strikes that note, playing him with a kind of bantam-rooster energy--and good-ole-boy charm. But something else is present, thanks in part to Zaillian's alertness to Warren's nuances. Willie has what Huey Long surely did not: a primitive sense of original sin. He believes...
...this case, their credibility. In what was already the year of the celebrity baby--Britney Spears playing hot potato with Sean Preston, Angelina Jolie posing like Madonna and child with Shiloh Nouvel--Suri inherited her dad's aura of mystery and its baggage. Cruise is one of those figures about whom there was always an official story and an unofficial story: the stuff you were allowed to say about him in respectable media and the stuff people actually cared about. The Scientology business, for instance. Cruise was a notoriously litigious member of a notoriously litigious institution. The press owns only...
...SEAN M. HIGGINS...
...What a contrast to my next patient. Sean is half Bob's age. He weighs less, isn't as active, and has nice straight legs. Barely a trace of arthritis on X-ray and nothing except "minimal arthritic changes" on his MRI. He has taken Advil, Naprosyn, Voltaren, Celebrex with minimal help. Injections into his knees of hyaluronic acid (a component of joint fluid) and corticosteroids provided only a few weeks of relief. Physical therapy, braces, acupuncture, yoga all failed. He couldn't get out of chairs, couldn't climb stairs because of the pain. There was one thing left...
...next? Here is the greatest mystery of my profession. As doctors, especially in my field of orthopedic surgery, we like to act as if we understand things like this - but we don't. It's a really interesting question because whoever answers it can turn a Sean into a Bob - getting the pain to go away without doing the operation - and this would be a minor miracle. We do have some tantalizing tips, though, about what makes things hurt...