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Wilde Adventures in Time Traveling ?

Who Am I This Time, which ends with the Walken character proposing to the Sarandon character using the dialogue from The Importance of Being Ernest, after they've met as Stanley and Stella Kowalski, and then courted as Romeo and Juliet, amongst others. (He's a pathologically shy hardware store clerk who only blossoms when he's on stage, and she adjusts her expectations to meet that need of his to communicate through plays.)

Huh! Interesting.

It was filmed for American Playhouse on PBS back in 1982, based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut and directed by Jonathan Demme. When it was first broadcast, I remember watching it because I had read the story in Reader's Digest a few years earlier. I instantly fell in love with it, and was able to tape it when it was rebroadcast later that summer. I've since lost that tape, but replaced it a few years ago after finding it on Amazon.

It's a terrific film, especially for those who love the performing arts.

Whoa. The NY Times parenting blog is freaking out. A few weeks ago, there was a guest post from a woman who was married to a man in the military who was away much of the time, they had five daughters, and they adopted a little boy. After 18 months, they decided that, since he didn't seem to be bonding with them, he would be better off with another family, and found a different family to adopt him. Comments started with things along the lines of "Thank you for sharing this painful story" but soon became pretty negative. [link]

Then, for some reason that I'm still trying to figure out, she went on The Today Show to tell the story again. [link] I kind of feel like there are huge pieces of this story missing -- she says, over and over, that she loves him but they didn't bond, but doesn't ever really say what that means -- how she could tell that a toddler had not bonded, how he interacted with her and the other kids, and so on.

edit: looking at it more closely, it looks like the youngest two biological children were born after they decided to adopt the boy, and at least one of them after he was already with their family.

Good heavens-- I'm watching an episode of House Hunters and the wife in the couple has got the same terrible haircut as Kate Gosselin. Why would anyone do that to their hair on purpose?

Good heavens-- I'm watching an episode of House Hunters and the wife in the couple has got the same terrible haircut as Kate Gosselin. Why would anyone do that to their hair on purpose?

That haircut that looks almost normal from the front, and then is all spiky in the back? I have no idea.

Hil, that woman even wrote a column about another mother who had given up an adopted child chastising her for doing so. It's all very weird. But in the end, the boy is thriving with another family and that's probably the best outcome.

Ugh. Owen is horribly congested and still feverish after two days. OTC meds are cutting it besides keeping his fever down. He's not sleeping well because of the stuffy nose and head and he's got chills and body aches to boot.

I never got George Clooney in the slightest during the ER years. Then, Ocean's Eleven came along and he was all salt and pepper and sly wit and I all of a sudden went, "Okay, yes. NOW I get it."

I am Barb. 100%. Same thing with Brad Pitt, really. He was all young and shiny but bland like an unstamped penny. Then along around Fight Club or later, he was suddenly all sexy.

That's the Robert Redford effect, IMO. Like, in The Way We Were, he's all shiny and pretty but bland. But about 10-15 years ago, he suddenly hit molten lava sexy.

Hil, that woman even wrote a column about another mother who had given up an adopted child chastising her for doing so. It's all very weird. But in the end, the boy is thriving with another family and that's probably the best outcome.

She also talks about using only his first initial to protect privacy, but in the comments on the first article, she uses his full name, and the Today Show segment blurred his face but not the faces of her daughters. And everything is about her feelings and her reactions, almost nothing about the actual child. It just seems odd that she chose to share the story, but isn't sharing what seem like the most relevant parts. (Not that her feelings aren't important, of course, but it seems odd to write about how you weren't bonding with the child without writing almost anything at all about the actual child.)

The only way that the timeline seems to work out is if she were already very pregnant when he arrived, and then got pregnant again within a few months, if she gave birth to two girls during the 18 months that he was with them.