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...Peter Shankman sees air travel as a risky business. But it's not the plane he worries about. It's the empty seat on his left - and who's going to fill it. "You watch [an error occurred while processing this directive] people coming down the aisle toward you and the theme from Jaws is playing in your head. You're thinking, 'Oh no, not this one' or 'That one looks like bathing is optional.'" So the 33-year-old U.S. marketing and p.r. executive created AirTroductions, an online service that matches up air travelers for business, friendship, romance - whatever...
...formula of Bringing Down the House is old; it’s your basic Bagger Vance meets Mrs. Doubtfire. Lack of conceptual originality isn’t a problem, however, since the plot is of secondary importance to the brilliant comedic acting from all the cast members. Director Adam Shankman, whose previous work includes A Walk to Remember and The Wedding Planner, takes a much appreciated hands-off approach, letting the actors take the mediocre script to unexpected heights of hilarity...
Moore, just 17, has screen appeal and poise as well. She and co-star Shane West (a regular on Once and Again) make A Walk to Remember something very close to convincing. No small feat, since Adam Shankman's film is stubbornly counterrevolutionary. In this teen pic, love is more important than sex; parents are sometimes wiser than their kids; Christian faith is to be admired, not reviled. You needn't prize piety over rebelliousness to find the movie's truculent decency refreshing, especially when it is played with such beguiling naturalness...
...imagine that, as writers Pamela Falk and Michael Ellis pitched their script, they kept punctuating the plot twists with "Get this!" But sharper filmmakers than Falk, Ellis and director Adam Shankman got this fluffy genre down perfect about 60 to 70 years ago. Nearly everything in this movie (the mistaken identity, the Italian-buffoon beau, the romancing and dancing, the heavy piano underscoring as the lovers zero in for a moonlit kiss) was done better by Fred and Ginger, Cary and Kate. The only innovation here is a scene in which Mary uses a Q-Tip to remove a statue...
Within months, however, Bettelheim's reputation was in tatters. Former students at the University of Chicago's Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School, which he directed for more than 25 years, broke silence to charge that one component of "Dr. B's" treatment was physical abuse. Investigating scholars belatedly discovered that Bettelheim had lifted, without credit, many of his provocative insights from other writers and had flagrantly lied about his background. For example, he liked to boast that his entry into analytic training had been approved by Sigmund Freud himself. But there is no evidence that he ever met Freud or trained...