Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Bush's record represents his best shot at convincing voters that he isn't just a new kind of favorite son--a way for a father to avenge defeat or party elders to retake the White House. It is also a window on what kind of President he would be: a nimble leader who bonds with the players, exploits his charm and energy, but also takes what he can get, sees what he wants to see and has no problem getting along with entrenched power...
...history. "I don't even know who was playing today," he admits. "St. Louis and some weird other team that beat somebody else that was supposed to get in the Super Bowl." DiCaprio isn't as in touch with American culture as American culture is with him. The son of a legal secretary and a hippie underground-comic-book artist, both retired, DiCaprio still thinks of himself as an edgy indie actor, not the Tiger Beat cover boy. "I have no connection with me during that whole Titanic phenomenon and what my face became around the world." Which is good...
...feature film, Next of Kin, which received funding from both the Canada Council and the Ontario Arts Council. The complex story deals with a disillusioned young man who, while undergoing video therapy with his parents, sees a tape of an Armenian family wracked with guilt over giving up their son to a foster home years ago. The protagonist, Peter, craves a new role in life, so he presents himself to the family as their long-lost son, an act that leads to dark visions concerning cultural displacement and the line between role-playing and reality...
...Egoyan followed Next of Kin with the disturbing Family Viewing, a 1987 film about the psychological struggle between Stan, a video equipment salesman, and his son, Van. Stan has driven both Van's mother and grandmother out of the house, and now he is symbolically eradicating their memory by taping over home videos-a practice that Van is painfully opposed...
...son James sent me this classified ad from the current issue of the Washington City Paper. That "Quakerism a plus" is the sort of touch that can't be faked. The ad is hilarious for a moment, and then sort of touching - toothsome and loathsome and (in some bizarre way) wholesome, all at the same time...