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...degree you aren't normally taught," Professor Kishlansky says. Since both his parents worked, Matt assumed greater responsibility in the family and became a parental figure for Eddie. "From age six or seven I've been taking care of my brother," Matt says. "Eddie's probably the most stubborn person on earth--he can be hard to deal with and I had to pick up a lot of slack from my parents. I became pretty independent at a young age due to the realities of the situation with my brother. I couldn't dominate my parents' time and attention...
These musings were prompted by the just released film October Sky, another drama about a withholding father and a stubborn son that also made me cry. October Sky was produced by Charles Gordon, who also produced Field of Dreams, which makes him one of the great male-weepie auteurs. "The kid seeking his father's acceptance is such a universal theme," says Gordon. It's also an old theme: if God had even once said he was sorry, or at least admitted he was a hard-ass and offered to take Abraham or Jesus out for a malted, I would...
Jonathan Harr's bestseller is a difficult book to adapt because it's not a hero-conquers-all story. The main character is a flawed hero--John Travolta plays real-life lawyer Jan Schlictmann with fiery intensity and a stubborn arrogance. A Civil Action is a difficult movie to like precisely because we must watch his disintegration. But the film rewards your patience. It takes the standard legal thriller and in it finds something more substantial: a human drama defined by gray rather than black and white...
Oscar nominee Judi Dench makes a turn here as the aged Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love, but her appearance repeats her stubborn curmudgeon act from Mrs. Brown. Incidentally, that film and Elizabeth are eerily similar in their portrayal of the relationship between a queen and her trusted manservant...
...health columnist Christine Gorman. "But literally every pound counts in terms of cholesterol and other health risks. Regaining only 35 percent of their lost weight is significant because regaining is so discouraging." And this drug is only for the morbidly obese, not the legions who want to drop a stubborn last 10 pounds. For them, the answer lies not in the medicine chest, but in the gym. "The best way to lose weight is to eat a low fat, balanced diet and exercise," Gorman reminds us. And for many that reality is a bitter pill to swallow...