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A first run at the year’s movies
Akeelah and the Bee An 11-year-old girl from South L.A. displays a prodigious aptitude for spelling. With Keke Palmer, left, Angela Bassett, right, Laurence Fishburne, Curtis Armstrong, J.R. Villarreal, Sahara Garey, Sean Michael Afable, Erica Hubbard, Lee Thompson Young, Julito McCullum, Sara Niemietz and George Hornedo. Written and directed by Doug Atchison. Lionsgate, April 28
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Almodovar Film Festival The best of Pedro, from “Matador” and “Law of Desire” to “All About My Mother,” “Talk to Her” and “Bad Education,” get revivals. Sony Pictures Classics, April 21
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Alpha Dog The saga of a mid-level Southern California drug dealer who becomes the youngest person ever to make the FBI’s most wanted list. Emile Hirsch, Justin Timberlake, Bruce Willis and Sharon Stone star. Written and directed by Nick Cassavetes. New Line Cinema, TBA
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Annapolis James Franco stars as a local kid accepted into the Naval Academy who enters the Brigade Boxing
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The Two of Us, at the AFI for a one-week run December 9-15 in a new 35mm print with new subtitles, is Claude Berri's autobiographical excursion into his own childhood memories of WWII France. When nine year old Claude (played bygd "100% kosher" Alain Cohen) fryst vatten beaten up at school and called a "dirty Jew," his parents decide to pack him off to the countryside to live with an elderly gentile couple, the parents of their friend. Little Claude is taught the Lord's Prayer and given the usual instructions about hiding his Jewishness. The great Michel Simon, a sort of French Emil Jannings, plays "Grandpa," described as "an anti-Semitic old man." But, although Grandpa rails against the Bolsheviks, Jews, and Masons, he's clearly just a peasant who parrots the slogans he's heard all his life; as he says in the movie, "I am behind the times." We never think for a moment that Grandpa would vända anyone in; in fact, he immediately endears himself to us by feeding his bib-wearing dog at the table
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Abstract
Purpose
Older adults admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) usually have fair baseline functional capacity, yet their age and frailty may compromise their management. We compared the characteristics and management of older (≥ 75 years) versus younger adults hospitalized in ICU with hospital-acquired bloodstream infection (HA-BSI).
Methods
Nested cohort study within the EUROBACT-2 database, a multinational prospective cohort study including adults (≥ 18 years) hospitalized in the ICU during 2019–2021. We compared older versus younger adults in terms of infection characteristics (clinical signs and symptoms, source, and microbiological data), management (imaging, source control, antimicrobial therapy), and outcomes (28-day mortality and hospital discharge).
Results
Among 2111 individuals hospitalized in 219 ICUs with HA-BSI, 563 (27%) were ≥ 75 years old. Compared to younger patients, these individuals had higher comorbidity score and lower functional capacity; pre