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☆ How ‘Terms of Endearment’ Brought a Mother and Daughter Closer
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-24 | by ( Dina Gachman | More About Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

We related to the mother-daughter dynamic of wanting to murder each other one moment, and cuddling in bed giggling the next. Since we knew the neighborhood Aurora lived in, the affluent River Oaks, we felt a kinship with the characters, as if they existed within our universe. Mostly, we bonded over the film’s message that levity and sorrow can, and should, coexist. The theme is just part of the fabric of the movie, like Aurora’s petal pink décor or Emma’s messiness. At the time, Brooks said the adaptation of the novel ended up being the toughest thing he had ever written.

Persons: Aurora, “, ” MacLaine, Brooks, Mary Tyler Moore, ”, ” Brooks, Nicholson Locations: New England, Texas, Oaks

☆ Margaret Renkl Writes in the Space Between Grief and Hope
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-25 | by ( Dina Gachman | More About Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Many of the black-eyed Susans, sunflowers, and zinnias have been picked dry by birds and insects. The caretaker of this garden, the author and essayist Margaret Renkl, leads me to her leaf-strewn deck out back, to show me a glimmer of hope. She placed the monarch caterpillar and the butterfly weed it was attached to inside the cage to protect it from red wasps. “They look like little jewels,” Renkl said of the chrysalis. In her new book, “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” published on Oct. 24, her powers of perception are on full display.

Persons: Margaret Renkl, Renkl hasn’t, ” Renkl, ” Organizations: Alabama lilt, chrysalis Locations: Nashville, Tennessee, Alabama

☆ Rats in the Walls, Baby on the Way
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Dina Gachman | More About Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

I was splayed out on the brown couch, eating my daily (OK, twice daily) mint chocolate chip Popsicle, imagining his birth. I was eight months along, gearing myself up for what would be a miraculous, life-altering event, one that billions of women had experienced before me. If humans invented a drug to mitigate the pain of childbirth, I was all in. Not wanting to hoist myself up unless there was an emergency or I needed another Popsicle, I waited. Maybe it was just a tree limb scraping against the house, or a harmless lizard.

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From web-slinging diversions to archaeological excursions, this summer movie season is stacked with releases across a variety of genres. Our writers who seek out the most interesting picks in horror, international, science fiction, action and children’s movies each month scoured the summer calendar to come up with the films that have their attention. Horror“Host,” Rob Savage’s terrifying 2020 found-footage movie about a possessed online séance, will go down as a defining pandemic-inspired horror film. Sophie Thatcher stars as a young woman who battles a home-invading supernatural entity that feeds on the suffering of its victims. Not only is Wilson reprising his role as Josh Lambert, father to a now college-age son, but he’s also making his directing debut.

☆ Samantha Irby Knows How to Trick You Into Thinking She’s Cool
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-13 | by ( Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

My stepkids are 15 and 17, and you know teenagers, nothing exists outside their body or their phone, so they don’t keep me hip. It’s nice to have my pop culture delivered into my ears by people who are funny and know more than I do. It’s my comfort book, which probably means I’m a sicko, but I don’t care! My wife knows that if I say I’m going to make a phone call in the car, it’s definitely to talk about her. Dina Gachman is the author of “So Sorry for Your Loss,” a book of essays about grief.

☆ Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-07 | by ( Dina Gachman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The “adorable animals on an epic journey” genre has enchanted young viewers for decades — “Homeward Bound” and “The Adventures of Milo and Otis” being just two beloved examples. Over in the United Forest of America, the evil Don Vulture is running for president against a bear, John Grizzly. (There is talk of “fake lies” and “big empty promises,” so you can probably guess which real-life former president the vulture is modeled after.) The law says no childless animal can become president, but the stork delivered Grizzly’s cub to the wrong home, so our heroes must race to return the cub in time for the election. Along the way they battle hungry hyenas and snowstorms, protecting the cooing baby bear so they can complete their quest.

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