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The second film this summer featuring a little boy who sees dead people gets decent reviews, but most say it's not as good as the similar box office smash The Sixth Sense . Echoes focuses on the little boy's father, played by Kevin Bacon in "one of his best performances" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Bacon also possesses second sight, not to mention a compulsion to dig up his backyard following an impromptu hypnosis session at a party.
It seems only logical, then, not to segregate those questions from that life but to weave them in with the filmmaker's other obsessions: friendship, lust, drinking, love of trashy horror flicks, and the compulsion to sit around b.s.
About the only mystery left is the psychological roots of the president's compulsion to lie under oath.
In both magazines: an examination of Kenneth Starr's legal case, a map of the White House diagraming what (allegedly) happened where, a profile of Lewinsky, a profile of Vernon Jordan, and an armchair analysis of Clinton's apparent sex compulsion.
But their compulsion to suceed and their advanced degrees do them little good when it comes to getting along with regular people, a skill they must and eventually do master.