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6 days agoKids, Wait Till You Hear This! by Liza Minnelli review a heady brew of gossip, glamour and defiance
Liza Minnelli's memoir reveals how childhood trauma from her mother Judy Garland's mental illness and addiction shaped her own struggles with substance abuse and her journey toward recovery.
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2 weeks agoMiscellaneous
My son Kevin went through something in his thirties that almost broke our family - and the thing nobody tells a father is that watching your kid fight his way back is harder than watching him fall, because hope is a heavier thing to carry than grief - Silicon Canals
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2 weeks agoMiscellaneous
My son Kevin went through something in his thirties that almost broke our family - and the thing nobody tells a father is that watching your kid fight his way back is harder than watching him fall, because hope is a heavier thing to carry than grief - Silicon Canals
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4 months agoHunter Biden Unloads on F**king Jake Tapper' for Poor Journalism' and Calling Him Sc*mbag'
Hunter Biden criticized Jake Tapper's both-sides journalism as detrimental, rejected personal vitriol, acknowledged past scumbaggery and emphasized recovery over impressing Tapper.
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4 months agoMilitarie Gun: God Save the Gun
There are also interludes and phone recordings littered throughout that posit God Save the Gun as the most indulgent of pursuits: the concept album. Shelton has always used rehabilitation and redemption as primary muses, considering whether the carceral or 12-step versions can truly offer any lasting change. In the past, he's done so as an invested outsider, writing about his brother's incarceration and his experience as an auditor at AA meetings.
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fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
4 months agoFilmWatch Weekly: 'Urchin,' 'An Officer and a Spy,' Hal Hartley's 'Where to Land,' and much more * Oregon ArtsWatch
Harris Dickinson's directorial debut portrays an addict's fraught path to recovery with textured realism, anchored by Frank Dillane's sympathetic, nuanced lead performance.
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fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoDwayne Johnson is already getting Oscar buzz for his transformation into an MMA legend in 'The Smashing Machine'
Mark Kerr was a dominant 1990s UFC fighter who battled pain medication addiction, later experienced homelessness, and is portrayed by Dwayne Johnson in a biopic.
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5 months agoClarkston review: Joe Locke puts on a confident performance in a timeless story
Clarkston centers on a fraught relationship between two young men and a mother’s recovery, anchored by Ruaridh Mollica’s electric, nuanced stage performance.
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6 months agoMother Vera review luminous portrait of a horse-wrangling ex-heroin addict nun
The opening sequence is extraordinary: a nun drops to the floor in devotion, hidden under the swathes of black habit puddling across the stone floor. There is more of this to come in photographer Alys Tomlinson and film-maker Cecile Embleton's beautiful black and white documentary. It is film of stillness, long, long takes and careful framing and would look at home playing on the walls of an art gallery.
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