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...Illegal Self is about a boy named Che whose mom accidentally blows herself up making bombs for a Weathermen-style group. (The specter of Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin haunts all these books.) A fellow traveler named Dial (short for dialectic, ugh) scoops Che up and flees with him to Australia, where she and Che hide out with a band of smelly rural hippies. There is nobody who is not a drag in this book: the cops; the angry, self-righteous American radicals who fight the cops; even the listless Australian hippies, though they are (I think) supposed to be the sympathetic...
Having served its dual function of introducing the X-folk--saber-clawed Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), telekinetic Jean Grey (Famke Janssen), weatherwoman Storm (Halle Berry), etc.--and earned $300 million worldwide, X-Men has spawned the requisite sequel. Singer saw the first film as a primer; now he has eyes for an epic. X2 is half an hour longer, miles more ambitious and a bit better than the wowless original...
...Weatherwoman surrenders
...paradoxes of his life have been strangely reflected in his two children. His son Michael, 33, practices with one of Washington's most prestigious law firms; his daughter Kathy, 29, allegedly became a Weatherwoman and was seen leaving a Manhattan town house that had just been destroyed in a 1970 bomb explosion. Kathy is still on the FBI's Wanted list. Boudin declines to talk about...
...newest additions are three women. Bernardine Dohrn, 28, a leading Weatherwoman, is charged with violating the federal antiriot law in Chicago during last fall's "Days of Rage." Susan Saxe and Katherine Power, 21-year-old former Brandeis students, are wanted, among other things, for taking part in the September robbery of a Boston bank in which a policeman was killed...