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Family background: Close-knit Irish-American clan. Her parents, Maureen and George, live in Longmeadow, Mass. (pop. 15,200) and make it to nearly all of her games, away and at home. They even came to watch the team in Ireland. One brother, Todd, graduated from West Point. Her family is devoutly Catholic, and she still goes to church every week...
...Hard With a vengeance" wisely keeps some of the formula that makes its predecessors so wonderful, but still introduces enough new twists to make itself independent (it even has an elevator sence of its own). The movie brings back John Clan (Bruce Willis), veteran New York detective and hero of terrorist incidents at Nakitomi Plaza in Los Angeles and Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.. McClane is having marital difficulties, not having talked to his wife in a year, and is "one step" from being an alcoholic. He is also on suspension from the police force...
...physically abusive. Where to end? The two-time Oscar winner (On the Waterfront, The Godfather) partly dedicated the book to "my children, who brought me up," yet he barely mentions his 11 (at least) offspring by his three wives and numerous lovers. Christian, 36, once said of his dysfunctional clan, "My family's so weird and spaced out ... I'd sit down at the table with all these strange people and say, 'Who are you?'" Brando alternately spoiled, ignored and bullied his children; as even he tearfully admitted at Christian's sentencing, "I think perhaps I failed as a father...
Well, he is. He's the subject of a spooky spellbinder called Crumb. With all due respect to Hoop Dreams, and with none to the inbred documentary-screening-committee clan of the Motion Picture Academy, which handed this year's Oscar to a former chair of that committee, Crumb is the one that should...
...dead man's vest. Is the Marquis Archie's father? Intriguing, but we wish there had been some hint of the relationship beforehand. "Rob Roy" is fully of similar lagunas. One of the most glaring is the fade-out over the course of the film of the clan scene in favor of Rob's personal drama. While the first half is liberally sprinkled with campfire sing-alongs and rustic detail, Rob effectively forgets the well being of the tribe in the second half. It's nice that he ends up with a charming house on the cameraready highland, but what...