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...Williams wept before a TV crew and said, "He's lost. His future's gone." No grownup in his life seems to have been looking out for that future before the shooting. Charles Andrew Williams had been a lost boy for some time--hopelessly adrift in a dysfunctional, anonymous suburban landscape, craving acceptance but too often meeting rejection instead...
...bought a home in suburban New Jersey, hails from Philadelphia, a city that in the '70s and '80s was known for music, basketball and cheesesteaks and then went through a period during which it pretty much had only cheesesteaks going for it. Now Philly music (and b-ball) is making a comeback. "Philly has always had a music scene," says Eve. "I think we're just hungry again...
...glimpse him in his latter years, he could have been any elderly man. He played golf, braved the shops sometimes, but mostly pottered about at home in suburban Adelaide. There was nothing to suggest this frail man was perhaps the finest sportsman who ever lived. His public life ended long ago. He would never comment on the latest trifle. He rarely graced social functions, even those that honored him. But few people felt deprived, much less slighted. Most knew that this was the right course for a great man: it ensured his spell would never be broken...
...test's makers heatedly deny). High school students and their parents also believe that scores on the all important test can be raised by spending hundreds, even thousands, of dollars on courses that teach you tricks for outwitting the test (its makers deny that too). Real estate values in suburban communities vary with the local high school's average SAT scores, even though the test was not designed to measure schools...
...movie, one thing you can tell just by looking at her is that she is famous. Director-writer Rodrigo Garcia snagged Glenn Close, left, Cameron Diaz, Calista Flockhart, Holly Hunter and others for this showcase for actresses: five closely observed studies of loneliness and fleeting moments of connection in suburban Southern California. If the stories sometimes use Creative Writing 101 devices (like a quasi-prophetic homeless woman), the total effect is as spare and haunting as the film's arid, beautifully shot setting...