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...relatively short directing career, Miller has shown a knack for making the people we think we don't want to know - like the father and daughter fighting incestuous urges in The Ballad of Jack and Rose - into not just plausible protagonists but people we truly care about. We assume Pippa has coasted through life on not much more than her beauty. The Lees' adult daughter, photojournalist Grace (Zoe Kazan), is crazy about her daddy, but when she directs her attention at her mother it's usually to give her a scathing look. Pippa's neurotic friend Sandra (Winona Ryder) chafing...
...generous act - the more skilled actress reaching out to the younger for the sake of the character. Wright Penn has been in the public consciousness for more than 20 years (Buttercup!), but she herself has been something of an enigma. She seemed, at times, hardly to want to be an actress, letting her private life lead the way while she clutched her potential close to her chest. Pippa should be a career changer. Wright Penn's cards are finally on the table, and it looks like a full house...
...post-World War II era. We're still weeks away from the end of '09, but it's not too early to pass judgment. Call it the Decade from Hell, or the Reckoning, or the Decade of Broken Dreams, or the Lost Decade. Call it whatever you want - just give thanks that it is nearly over. (See TIME's photo-essay "The 10 Worst Things About the Worst Decade Ever...
...been working on with Democrats before adding, "And not just on negative issues like abortion." Across the room, Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, a pro-life Catholic, listened in silence. A few minutes later, a reporter asked his opinion on abortion coverage in the Senate version of health reform. "We want to make sure that there is no federal funding of abortion," began Casey, but Michigan Senator Debbie Stabenow quickly...
...past two years (the group is already running $130,000 worth of commercials against Reid). "Casey ran as a pro-life Democrat, and it's time he deliver for his constituents. His father had such a legacy on the issue and you'd think he'd want to augment that." Getting something passed in the Senate has taken on extra urgency, says Douglas Johnson, legislative director of National Right to Life, because pro-life groups believe House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is considering simply passing the Senate version rather than trying to merge the two chambers' different bills into one finished...