In last year's futuristic movie, "Wall-E," human beings, evacuated from an uninhabitable Earth, now live in a space station, confined to hover chairs and unable to walk because they have become so obese. Actually, it's the other way around. They became so obese because they no longer walked.
Last Thursday my wife, Eleanor, flew to Houston, Texas, to see her grandmother, Nana, who had just suffered a debilitating stroke.
Susan Boyle, who recently performed on the U.K. television show "Britain's Got Talent," has captured the world's attention.
In the Academy Award-winning short film "The Accountant," the O'Dell brothers call an accountant to save them from losing their family farm.