Word: sonly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...pressure to be presidential weren't heavy enough for their third and final presidential debate Tuesday night, George W. Bush and Al Gore are now facing off in a state that has just lost a favorite son...
...writer-director, son of political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, lets his large, attractive cast display varieties of charisma and chicanery for an hour or so. Then he has everyone make speeches; it's as though a TV remote control had switched from The West Wing to the Lieberman-Cheney debate. All drama, not to mention insider dish, gets lost in the wind tunnel. By the end, The Contender is as edifying and stultifying as--what would the real-life equivalent be?--a Ralph Nader presidency...
...sense of mission. Heidi Brennan, 47, a former management-training specialist in Arlington, Va., chose to stay home with her five children to shape their values. "No one was going to care more than I was," she says. Johanne Laboy, 33, an M.B.A. living in Cary, N.C., realized her son Austin, 2, would not speak the language of her native Puerto Rico--or be able to communicate with his grandmother--unless she stayed home and spoke to him in Spanish. "For him to know Spanish will be important for his personal development," she says...
...disappointed, he didn't show it. Instead, he was upbeat about the progress made since Keiko saw his first wild cousins a few months ago--and fled in fright. Vinick is executive vice president of the California-based Ocean Futures, a nonprofit environmental organization headed by Jean-Michel Cousteau (son of Jacques) that has taken over the job of returning Keiko to the wild. Ocean Futures sees this as a "labor of the heart" but hopes it will also help raise public interest in marine issues. "The knowledge we are acquiring with this enormous effort is going to help...
...Harry locked his mother in the closet." The first line of Hubert Selby Jr.'s novel, vigorously transposed to film by the venturesome director of [Pi], gets to the essence of two warring addicts: mother Sara (Ellen Burstyn), the Blanche DuBois of Brighton Beach, and her son (Jared Leto). Mom swears by amphetamines and TV hucksters; Harry loves heroin and his desperate girlfriend Marion (Jennifer Connelly). Using the bravery of his actors, and every trick in a smart cineast's book, Aronofsky takes the viewer on a jolting trip through the theme park called Hell. It's a demanding film...