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...spare and naturalistic. The theme is relationships, beginning in angst and ending in reconciliation. The focus is often on a dysfunctional family (there are no functional ones in indie movies) that strives to reconnect. Within this genre are a few subspecies: the family breakup film (The Squid and the Whale), the finding-your-family-at-school movie (Half Nelson, Brick), the gay drama (Mysterious Skin). Way too frequently, the family goes on a trip. Given the typical Sundance pace, which is leisurely to lethargic, these road movies rarely get in the passing lane...
...that, except for ungulates like deer and antelopes, rehabilitation programs are notoriously unsuccessful, with the animals rarely able to shake their dependency on human handouts. Several long-term efforts to reintroduce orangutans into Indonesia's fast-disappearing forests have met with scant success, for example. Even Keiko the killer whale (the inspiration for the Free Willy movies) ended up hanging out in a Norwegian harbor looking for free food from fishermen and tourists instead of frolicking with his oceanic relatives...
...scary, Tomlinson won't bowl you over the way Brown did. But most opponents haven't scoped his thunder thighs. When asked about his lower-body strength during an interview in the Chargers' locker room, the otherwise demure Tomlinson unsheathes his left leg from his sweatpants. Think humpback whale, with muscles. "I'm proud of my thighs," Tomlinson says with a laugh. "That's where the power comes from...
...marriage; 7) vote; 8) the prophet Muhammad; 9) Berlusconi: b; Koizumi: c; Uribe: a; 10) 12,000; 11) a, b, c & d: all these celebs were arrested in 2006; 12) Crash; 13) a: Britney Spears; 14) c: cervical cancer; 15) c: Zeta; 16) battery; 17) a whale; 18) Duke; 19) Italy; 20) B: the Preakness
...used to swim with Kasatka," says John Hargrove, formerly a senior trainer of killer whales at SeaWorld California. "She's an amazing animal. This incident doesn't make her a bad whale. People need to understand that animals can get upset or frustrated just like people and just like your cat or dog. But when it's a 6,000- or 8,000-lb. killer whale, the stakes are much greater." Hargrove has been dragged down by captive orcas himself while employed as a supervisor at a French marine facility that is unaffiliated with SeaWorld. "Those killer whales never...