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Each week TIME writers, editors and correspondents chat on AOL about what's happening in the news. This week the talk is about anthrax anxiety, the danger of truck bombs and how small-town America is coping with post-9/11 life...
...Catholic, small-town, the daughter of the police chief--none of which prevents Bev (Drew Barrymore) from getting knocked up by the wrong boy (Steve Zahn, playing dumb but sweet-natured) at age 15. The rest of the movie is about her trying to realize her ambitions (college, writing books, ensuring her son's love) while dealing with her husband's fecklessness, her boy's fractiousness, her own foot-in-mouth feistiness. It is somewhat repetitive, but it is also wonderfully acted, especially by Barrymore. Like the movie itself, she's neither self-pitying nor self-aggrandizing--just real...
...Collins (Billy Bob Thornton) thinks he's a smart guy but is actually a hilarious hypochondriac. Kate Wheeler (Cate Blanchett) is a homemaker driven mad by her husband's solipsistic indifference. Very quickly they constitute themselves as "the Sleepover Bandits." Their m.o. is to invade the home of a small-town bank manager at night, take the family hostage and, bickering all the way, waltz into the vault before the bank opens in the morning...
That line is one of the album's appeals to youths with the small-town blues. It's also one of its habitual overstatements. "Everything sucks, and I can prove it," Taylor croaks on I Am Hated. Instead of providing proof, however, he deals mostly in dour, cuss-laden generalizations. With song titles like People = S__t, it's no wonder radio has been slow to embrace the band...
...smack into the class divide when she went from small-town life in Albert Lea to the University of Chicago. "It was major culture shock," she says. "There were ways of life that I had read books about, and fantasized about, but never imagined were real. I discovered how ignorant I was of the culture with a capital C." But, she adds, "I caught on eventually to how ignorant and provincial those people were. They knew nothing of my life...