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Depression is--well, yes--a depressing topic. It costs the nation gazillions annually in medical bills and in man-hours lost to, and we're speaking literally here, downtime...
...particular the revels of romance. Next to Jewish life, his great topic was love, especially for Bella, the woman he married in 1915. In Lovers in the Red Sky, painted in 1950, six years after her death, a couple flies together through the air, as Chagall and Bella had done in so many of his other paintings. Those airborne pairs are his loveliest contribution to Western imagery, a secular version of Christianity's great floating figures, the Ascension of Christ and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary...
Such a meeting of the church's leaders on a single, urgent topic is "very, very rare," says the Rev. J. Robert Wright, official historiographer of the Episcopal Church. "To my knowledge it has never been done before...
Both films take up a topic currently agitating academics--female bullying--which is central to Thirteen and a somewhat underdeveloped subplot in Freaky Friday. In the former, Reed plays Evie, who moves in on a slightly disheveled but still functioning family and leads the daughter Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) to the brink of disaster. It contains a nice, dithering performance by Holly Hunter as a mom making a living by hairdressing at home while trying to sustain a relationship with an unpromising guy (Jeremy Sisto). In the latter, the mother Tess (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her kid are magically obliged...
...assed music, shopaholic mall life and loony peer pressure for the right clothes and attitude. Yet there's a welcome roughness and passion to Thirteen. To see the essentially innocent Tracy taken over by her scheming, psychopathic friend because everyone else--parents, teachers, cliquey friends (another big topic in academia)--is too distracted to see how lost and yearning she has become is inevitably touching...