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...case, and a similar one pending in Illinois, could set new precedents for the rights of nonbiological or "psychological" parents. Steve Scarborough, a lawyer for the Lambda Legal Defense Fund, which promotes homosexual rights and is representing Kazmierazak, says courts in New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin have "recognized the harm that comes to children when relationships with nonbiological parents are severed...
...chums will try talking their way back into the pop zeitgeist with the feature cartoon South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut. In Mickey Blue Eyes, Brit blueblood Hugh Grant plans to marry into a Mafia family and has to pass himself off as a Brooklyn gangster. Detroit Rock City, set in 1978, is about four guys trying to bluff their way into a KISS concert. It may remind you of I Wanna Hold Your Hand, made in 1978, about a bunch of kids trying to get into the Beatles' first Ed Sullivan gig in 1964. But then, every summer movie...
About 40% of the new film was improvised on the set, say several actors. Yet things weren't loosey-goosey for everyone. "It's not as lighthearted as it seems," says Heather Graham, who plays slinky CIA agent Felicity Shagwell. "They were pretty specific about the script. Mike would improvise and make up stuff, but if you forgot one word, they'd say, 'No, that's wrong.' It appears off the cuff, but it was kind of scientific and took hours to get right." Some over-the-top bits were chopped from the movie, many involving a grotesque adversary named...
...minds on that very question. Employing his virtuosity as an orchestrator of suspense, the author puts Lecter, his facial appearance altered by collagen injections, in Florence, Italy, speaking impeccable Italian and lecturing to scholars on the works of Dante. Verger's network of spies has spotted Lecter there and set a trap that he cannot possibly escape. Guess what happens...
Last summer she plodded through the required reading list as if it was one long, dreadful homework assignment. By August she was only midway through the first of four novels. And that's when I became the commandant of our reading boot camp. Every day I set aside at least an hour for reading fiction. We turned off the TV and radio and hung out together, reading. My daughter read E.B. White. I read Elmore Leonard and Walker Percy. I asked her about The Trumpet of the Swan. She quizzed me about Chili Palmer...