Word: sonly
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...That shaky performance may or may not have been influenced by the fact that Zappala, the owner of the two private detention centers receiving a guaranteed annual rent ($1.3 million) from Luzerne County, is the son of a former chief of the same court. Or maybe it was what State Chief Justice Ron Castile told a local columnist, in a sad commentary on the entire system: the judges found the state's figures on the unusually high rates of kids being sentenced to detention and getting no legal representation simply too hard to believe...
...particularly relevant during the country’s current economic state. Troy’s confrontations with his father are some of the most absorbing moments in the film, and not just because it is amusing to see Tom Hanks and Colin Hanks together on screen as father and son. The dramatic tension between these two characters is far beyond anything Buck Howard can create with his magic acts. Troy sticks steadfastly to his decision to do what he loves, rather than what is most profitable. Seeing his determination, it is impossible not to admire him, though perhaps...
...predictable recipe for indie flick humor.The biohazard removal business shines as a beacon of hope for the film’s lovable, but not particularly successful, sisterly duo. Adams plays a once-popular cheerleader having an affair with her married ex-quarterback, ex-boyfriend Mac (Steve Zahn). Their son Oscar (Jason Spevack) is in desperate need of expensive, individualized private school enrollment thanks to his habit of licking walls at his current public school. Norah has even less to look forward to in the morning. In the words of her sister, “You don?...
...Wang and Son also direct their ire at targets at home. They assert that China suffers from weaknesses in its political system and that democracy should be the nation's ultimate goal. But when they discuss democracy they are more likely to highlight the failures of India and the Philippines than to mention the top 20 nations on the United Nations Development Programs human-development index, which are all democratic. In that regard they are much like the Chinese Communist Party, which says it is pursuing democracy "with Chinese characteristics," but argues that any moves to lessen its grip...
Kentridge was born in 1955 in Johannesburg, the "rather desperate provincial city," as he's called it, where he still lives and works. His parents were both lawyers active in defending victims of apartheid. Their son took degrees in politics and fine arts from South African schools. For a time he tried acting. In the early '80s he studied mime and theater in Paris. But by the middle of that decade, back in Johannesburg, he had committed himself...