Word: sonly
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...Creators Bonnie and Terry Turner ("That '70s Show") conceived it as a buddy comedy between a gay and a straight man ("The Odd Couple" without the subtext) but retooled it; now the gay Butch (Goodman) returns to his small town to reconcile with his unaccepting parents and his grown son. Terry Turner says the creators wanted to base the show on a universal - "Family is one of those things everyone knows" - rather than on gay jokes. (Right. We counted a dozen, six minutes into the pilot...
...flowers were commissioned in 1886 by a Harvard professor who wanted to teach from lifelike samples year-round. A father and son team of master glass-blowers took a half-century to create the collection...
Although her new self-defined gender role as a woman met suspicion in her native Orthodox Jewish community, Bornstein reconciled with her ailing mother, who had acknowledged her son-turned-daughter as a "lesbian" in a very closely-knit circle of friends...
Better still, she has a saintly son, Trevor (Haley Joel Osment), who is eager to bring these two damaged creatures together for purposes of mutual redemption. He also has bigger plans. Responding to an assignment from Mr. Simonet, who asks his students to come up with a plan to improve the world, he invents the Pay It Forward plan. His idea is to do good deeds for three people, each of whom does the same for three more individuals and so on--until, presumably, peace is established in the Middle East. This is not dissimilar to Frank Capra's John...
...political center. Now, at 61, he's one of the Senate's most endangered incumbents, running a campaign in which he seems to have the bearing of a Senator but not the substance. Polls have him running anywhere from 3 to 10 points behind his Republican challenger, George Allen, son of a former Washington Redskins coach and, like Robb, a former Virginia Governor. Eager not to abandon one of the party's better-known names, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee has been spending freely in recent months to keep Robb afloat. As Senate minority leader Tom Daschle...