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...Once You're Born (from the fatalistic saying, "Once you're born you can't hide") is the story of how the "immigrant problem" touches a well-bred boy from the Northern city of Brescia. Sandro (the exceptional first-time actor Matteo Gadola) is the only child of a loving couple (Alessio Boni and Michela Cescon) who run a factory that employs mostly immigrants from Africa and Eastern Europe. One night, on a yacht excursion with his dad and uncle, Sandro falls overboard and, when his absence isn't noticed, prepares to die. He calls "Papa!" for help, whispers "Mama...
...doesn't, makes you cry or leaves you cold. We'll just say that, for maybe half of this film, one of us (the one with the beard) was wetter than Sandro on that night in the Mediterranean. And the other (prettier) one followed the boy's journey from the comfort of childhood into a mature awareness of human contradictions and ambiguities...
What he apparently hadn't imagined was that the Spokesman-Review's editors wanted to know too. Prompted by rumors of West's homosexuality (a five-year marriage ended in divorce in the mid-1990s) and a tip about his alleged predilection for boys, the paper had months earlier begun investigating his personal life. The results of that probe, which culminated in a controversial Internet sting operation, landed on Spokane's collective doorstep on May 5 like a paper bomb. "For a quarter-century," the report began, "the man who is now Spokane's mayor has used positions of public...
...couldn't if he wanted to. The paper had also printed, in humiliating detail, Internet exchanges between the mayor and its hired computer-forensics expert posing as a 17-year-old boy. Over three months, the former federal agent, under the screen name Moto-Broc, engaged the man who called himself Cobra82nd and RightBi-Guy in instant-message conversations. The exchanges are in turns offensive, ironic and saddening. West is the first to bring up the topic of sex with a boy who says he's 17. But when Moto-Broc complains that his parents don't give him enough...
...legendary curse and a generation of horror movies turns out to have been a slender, buck-toothed teenager who probably died after a serious accident. A team of Egyptian scientists recently put King Tutankhamen through a medical scanner, generating 1,700 highly detailed three-dimensional images of the boy king's remains. Using an exact model of Tut's skull, three forensic teams then reconstructed the face behind the famous golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk the notion that Tut was murdered...