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Despite the intrusion of post-9/11 themes into the subdued suburban settings of previous Nicholas Sparks film adaptations such as “The Notebook,” “Message in a Bottle,” and “A Walk to Remember,” actors Channing M. Tatum and Amanda M. Seyfried said in a conference call that their upcoming film “Dear John” is still in line with the emotionally moving material at which Sparks excels...

Author: By Kristie T. La, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love Overcomes War in 'Dear John' | 2/2/2010 | See Source »

That brutal finale made Salinger a sensation in literary circles. By that time Salinger, too, was becoming a man who could not abide the world. The producer Darryl Zanuck bought the screen rights to another of Salinger's New Yorker stories, "Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut," about a suburban housewife who dissolves into self-pity during an afternoon of drinking with an old school chum. Zanuck had it rewritten as a throbbing melodrama with Susan Hayward that was released under the title My Foolish Heart. The whole thing made Salinger cringe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: J.D. Salinger Dies: Hermit Crab of American Letters | 1/29/2010 | See Source »

...musical, which is unabashedly politically correct and at times unbearably sappy, tells Obama's story from two different perspectives - that of his family and that of the residents of a middle-class suburban Chicago neighborhood. Barack and Michelle have their first date against a backdrop of red roses, and later he mourns the death of his beloved grandmother Toot. Meanwhile, in the Chicago suburbs, the conservative German-American widow Mrs. Schultz and the Obama-supporting Johnson family bond over their worries (the Johnsons' son is missing in Iraq; Mrs. Schultz has lost her house) and their excitement about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama, the Musical: Germany's Stage Love Letter | 1/20/2010 | See Source »

...streets, Hamman and I drove her eight hours to her home in Eastern Cape. Wary of the failure rate of Lombard's unmonitored returns, we worked with a dedicated social worker in Indwe to ensure that the conditions under which she was originally trafficked did not reappear. A suburban-Chicago couple has given her a full scholarship, enabling the otherwise impossible goal of finishing school. She is HIV-negative. It is a stretch to call her lucky. But she has another chance at life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's New Slave Trade and the Campaign to Stop It | 1/18/2010 | See Source »

HEATHER BAKER, a suburban-Washington homeowner who is purposely defaulting on her mortgage despite having the money to pay it. She cites the property's devaluation as her reason...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 1/11/2010 | See Source »

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