Subject: Makes you a real man

From: "Carole 06" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 00:14:26 -0500

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A Panglossian eternal teenager at heart, he is madly in love
with his girlfriend, Doreen (Eva Mendes). The appeal of “The Wendell Baker
Story” depends on how charming you find the Wilson brothers, with their
chipmunk grins and hip smart-aleck attitude. For more than a century,
researchers have been trying to work out the raw ingredients that account
for personality, the sweetness and neuroses that make Anna Anna, the
sluggishness and sensitivity that make Andrew Andrew. They have largely
ignored the first-person explanation — the life story that people themselves
tell about who they are, and why. Yet in the past decade or so a handful of
psychologists have argued that the quicksilver elements of personal
narrative belong in any three-dimensional picture of personality.

And a burst of new findings are now helping them make the case. YouTube
routines notwithstanding, most people do not begin to see themselves in the
midst of a tale with a beginning, middle and eventual end until they are
teenagers. Over the years, Dr.McAdams and others have interviewed hundreds
of men and women, most in their 30s and older. During a standard life-story
interview, people describe phases of their lives as if they were outlining
chapters, from the sandlot years through adolescence and middle age.

Instead they go to a Koranic school, where they learn the Koran by rote.
Unless the Shrek team wants to follow its hero into the dangerous swamps of
mid-life, thus shifting his literary pedigree away from William Steig and in
the direction of John Updike or Philip Roth, it may want to leave him in a
condition of more-or-less happily ever after. Success may not have spoiled
Mr. A movie featuring Ice Cube bellowing "No more profanity. Ice Cube
returns as star and executive producer of "Barbershop 2." His Calvin Palmer
provides the common sense that holds the shop together, a glue it
desperately needs.

Characters don’t just walk in this film; they float across the frame,
pouring like liquid toward their inexorable destinies. However, the house is
owned by Big Momma (Ella Mitchell), an older woman with a sharp tongue and
no patience for back talk, and when Big Momma has to leave town, it leaves
her house suspiciously empty.

Wendell, who works with a partner, Reyes (Jacob Vargas), out of an
Airstream trailer he calls the Ellis Island of the Southwest, means no harm.
Smirks are to be had, but no belly laughs. They have largely ignored the
first-person explanation — the life story that people themselves tell about
who they are, and why. Stories are stories, after all. With the decline of
manufacturing and few formal jobs, many residents make a meager living off
one another’s misery. In the first movie Shrek (voiced by Mike Myers) met
and wooed his lady love, Fiona (Cameron Diaz); in the second he got to know
the in-laws. The current installment finds him faced with impending
fatherhood and something of a career crisis.

But then again, so did my kids.) As it happens, the over-all shape does
recall a Busby Berkeley musical — snappy story, lavish number, snappy story,
lavish number — but without the snap or fun. Most of the decisions involving
this sequel to the spirited original "Barbershop" — a movie that itself
cobbled together pieces of other projects — are about carefully retracing
the steps of that 2002 hit in order to keep those $100 Benjamins
flowing.

Ice Cube returns as star and executive producer of "Barbershop 2." His
Calvin Palmer provides the common sense that holds the shop together, a glue
it desperately needs. The prowling camera and dusky colors give much of
“Zoo,” which opens with the portentous image of what appear to be miners
emerging from a tunnel, a sumptuous, almost velvety look and vibe, an effect
enhanced by the repeated use of slow-motion photography.Big Momma's House
gained considerable pre-production publicity when Lawrence fell into a coma
while jogging in a heat wave before the film's start date; Lawrence claimed
that he was trying to lose weight to fit more comfortably into his
character's "fat suit." She, however, is running out of patience with his
protracted adolescence. Stories are stories, after all. The attractive
stranger at the airport bar hears one version, the parole officer another,
and the P.T.A. board gets something entirely different.

McAdams, a professor of psychology at Northwestern and author of the 2006
book, “The Redemptive Self.” “Well, we find that these narratives guide
behavior in every moment, and frame not only how we see the past but how we
see ourselves in the future.” Psychologists know what life stories look like
when they are fully hatched, at least for some Americans. A note of
disappointment seems to close each narrative phrase. nusscoco
nocalsch-archive888lists.ietf.orgmo We find that when it comes to the big
choices people make — should I marry this person?

Any life story is by definition a retrospective reconstruction, at least in
part an outgrowth of native temperament. They sought treatment for things
like depression, anxiety, marital problems and fear of flying, and spent
months to years in therapy. Yet Mr.Adler found that in fact those former
patients who scored highest on measures of well-being — who had recovered,
by standard measures — told very similar tales about their experiences. To
better understand how stories are built in real time, researchers have
recently studied how people recall vivid scenes from recent memory. “What
our experiment showed is that this shift in perspective, having this
distance from yourself, allows you to relive the experience and focus on why
you’re feeling upset,” instead of being immersed in it, said Ethan Kross,
the study’s lead author.

But well before I became pregnant, I concluded that a vegan pregnancy was
irresponsible. Nutritionists used to speak of proteins as “first class”
(from meat, fish, eggs and milk) and “second class” (from plants), but today
this is considered denigrating to vegetarians.

The fact remains, though, that humans prefer animal proteins and fats to
cereals and tubers, because they contain all the essential amino acids
needed for life in the right ratio. It is difficult to overstate the
importance of DHA, vital as it is for eye and brain development. That’s why
health officials in Britain, Canada and other countries express caution
about soy for babies. Children fed only plants will not get the precious
things they need to live and grow. An indulgent professor spared her ‘the
ordeal of the lecture theatre’. And so to the policy challenge we now face.
As at Phoenix, many attend university to improve their employment
prospects.

As economist Max Corden argued, one philosophy that Dr Nelson favoured was
complex bureaucratic controls whose consistent application reduced diversity
– creating ‘Moscow on the Molongo’, in Corden’s memorable phrase. As she
considers Cassab’s life story (migration to Australia in 1951, having lost
her mother, grandmother, uncle and other family members in Auschwitz), and
those of a generation of Holocaust refugees, Niall is acutely aware of the
human cost of the Howard government’s policy on detention centres and
shocked by its ‘scant respect for the rights of refugees’. Hence the
benefits of expanded and free education went to middle-class families.

“There is no future for the poor man in this country,” he said. Despite
billions spent on the problem, all that changed was the name of the state
power company.Adhama used to employ 330 workers in his workshops in the
1980s, but now he has just 24 employees as he tries to restart his business.
He said the blame for the country’s dilapidated condition lay with its
leaders. But there is nonetheless a feeling of finality about “Shrek the
Third,” a sense that the tale has at last reached a state of completion.
After exploring the predominance of violence in American culture in Bowling
for Columbine and taking a critical look at the September 11th attacks in
Fahrenheit 9/11, activist filmmaker Michael Moore turns his attentions
towards the topic of health care in the United States in this documentary
that weighs the plight of the uninsured against the record profits of the
pharmaceutical industry. Raimi as it has Peter Parker, but it seems as if it
has zapped his gracious good humor, which was so critical to the first two
films.

When the moneyed inner-city entrepreneur Quentin Leroux (Harry Lennix)
builds a lavish competitor called Nappy Cutz right across the street from
Calvin's shop, the battle is on — Calvin has to fight to keep his business
alive. Characters don’t just walk in this film; they float across the frame,
pouring like liquid toward their inexorable destinies. Wendell, who works
with a partner, Reyes (Jacob Vargas), out of an Airstream trailer he calls
the Ellis Island of the Southwest, means no harm. This shambling,
good-natured comedy is a Wilson family affair.

Smirks are to be had, but no belly laughs. Yet in the past decade or so a
handful of psychologists have argued that the quicksilver elements of
personal narrative belong in any three-dimensional picture of personality.
McAdams, a professor of psychology at Northwestern and author of the 2006
book, “The Redemptive Self.” “Well, we find that these narratives guide
behavior in every moment, and frame not only how we see the past but how we
see ourselves in the future.” YouTube routines notwithstanding, most people
do not begin to see themselves in the midst of a tale with a beginning,
middle and eventual end until they are teenagers. Psychologists know what
life stories look like when they are fully hatched, at least for some
Americans.

They also describe several crucial scenes in detail, including high points
(the graduation speech, complete with verbal drum roll); low points (the
college nervous breakdown, complete with the list of witnesses); and turning
points. By contrast, so-called generative adults — those who score highly on
tests measuring civic-mindedness, and who are likely to be energetic and
involved — tend to see many of the events in their life in the reverse
order, as linked by themes of redemption.

In broad outline, the researchers report, such tales express distinctly
American cultural narratives, of emancipation or atonement, of Horatio Alger
advancement, of epiphany and second chances. Adler reported on 180 adults
from the Chicago area who had recently completed a course of talk therapy.
Those in the study who scored lower on measures of psychological well-being
were more likely to see their moods and behavior problems as a part of their
own character, rather than as a villain to be defeated. “What our experiment
showed is that this shift in perspective, having this distance from
yourself, allows you to relive the experience and focus on why you’re
feeling upset,” instead of being immersed in it, said Ethan Kross, the
study’s lead author. The way people replay and recast memories, day by day,
deepens and reshapes their larger life story. I was once a vegan. But well
before I became pregnant, I concluded that a vegan pregnancy was
irresponsible.

With the decline of manufacturing and few formal jobs, many residents make
a meager living off one another’s misery. For all I know, there may be an
endless supply of “Shrek” sequels in the pipeline. The current installment
finds him faced with impending fatherhood and something of a career
crisis.

Which is only to say that “Shrek the Third,” directed by Chris Miller and
Raman Hui from a script with a half-dozen credited begetters, already feels
less like a children’s movie than either of its predecessors. (This may be
why I liked it better than the others.