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Terrific film! Nicholas Cage stars as a con artist struggling with reality: he’s obsessive compulsive to the max (he cleans his house constantly), and he begins seeing a shrink to help him cope with life. He learns he’s got a daughter he’s never met from an ancient relationship, and she wants to meet him. The fourteen-year-old girl is the antithesis of him — wild, uncontrolled, impulsive, sloppy — and when she has an argument with her mother, she moves in for a week. The daughter is played by Alison Lohman (

I am so sad to hear the news that actor John Ritter died. While most dismissed his Three’s Company as silly, I consider him to be a comic genius. He was a master of physical comedy, making the incredibly difficult look easy (just try to make a fall look genuinely accidental, I dare you — it’s much harder than it sounds). John was back in a new hit series (though I never watched it), which was great, and things were going well. Very sad for him to go so suddenly and so young (he was only 54). Just another example of how we ultimately have no control over Life, no matter who we are, famous or infamous, rich or poor.