This film is married boy meets married girl, boy has long bout of drug addiction, boy wins girl finally when both are free. The movie ends somewhat abruptly when June accepts his proposal onstage in Toronto, when both are free. But what happens in between makes for a good movie. There is enough of Johnny Cash's life remaining to make at least one other movie.

I liked this movie, and will see it again.

KANSAS CITY (AP) - A recent change in the photo of a well-known children’s book illustrator to remove a cigarette from his hand has drawn criticism from a Kansas City bookstore.

Pete Cowdin, owner of Reading Reptile, said he noticed the change about six weeks ago while selling a copy of "Goodnight Moon," a popular classic written by Margaret Wise Brown and illustrated by Clement Hurd that was first published in 1947.

The photograph of Hurd published in the book for years showed him with a cigarette in his right hand, but in new copies brought out recently by HarperCollins Publishers, the cigarette has been digitally removed.

Cowdin, surprised by the change, reacted by setting up a Web site, www.goodnightreality.com, to protest what he says is censorship.

"This is one of the best-selling kids’ books of all time," he said. "There are certain responsibilities and obligations on the part of the publisher as a steward - not just a marketer - to what I consider an archival document. To go in and do something like that is the pinnacle of arrogance."

And what do the arrogant say?

Kate Morgan Jackson, editor-in-chief for HarperCollins Children’s Books, said the company contends the issue is about smoking.

"One of our responsibilities is to make sure we are publishing" the book "the right way throughout the ages and making it healthy for every generation," she said.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Adolescents who regularly smoke marijuana risk damaging a key brain pathway associated with language development and some predisposed to schizophrenia may contract the illness early, researchers said on Wednesday.

Brain scans revealed microscopic abnormalities in a region of the brain that governs higher aspects of language and listening functions in adolescents who are heavy marijuana smokers.

Similar damage to the bundle of fibers, called the arcuate fasciculus, that connect the Broca's area in the left frontal lobe and the Wernicke's area in the left temporal lobe was found in the brains of marijuana smokers and schizophrenics studied.

"These findings suggest that in addition to interfering with normal brain development, heavy marijuana use in adolescents may also lead to an earlier onset of schizophrenia in individuals who are genetically predisposed to the disorder," said psychiatry professor Sanjiv Kumra of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.

The Federal Protective Service in Colorado referred inquiries to Carl Rusnok of Dallas, a spokesman for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which oversees the federal police. Both are part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Rusnok said the federal officers in Colorado told him the policy of checking the IDs of bus passengers and others entering the Federal Center began shortly after the April 1995 terrorist bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City.

"It's one of the multiple forms of security," Rusnok said. "The identification is one means of making sure that, whoever comes on base, that you know that they are who they say they are.

"There are a variety of other means that bad people could take to circumvent that, but that's why there are multiple layers of security," he said.

First, we'd like to note that there is method to the madness of having a spokesman in Dallas try to explain what is happening in Denver. Rusnok can be hazy on details and have plausible deniability for anything that might give the government a black eye. Yet at the same time he sounds authoritative.

Second, unless they can trot out some happy civilian bus riders who can chirp that they've been asked periodically for identification since April 1995, that explanation doesn't hold spit (which is slightly more viscuous than water).

Third, if they are concerned with the identities of "whoever comes on base" then they should be demanding ID from everyone who gets off at the bus stops within the center, not on the through riders.

A spokesman for RTD - Rapid Transit Denver - makes sure that RTD is not held responsible by either side in this debate over how American citizens are to be treated while riding to their jobs on public transportation. Essentially worthless verbiage.

The newspaper notes that of the woman's four children, one son is a Navy veteran, and another, 21, is fighting in Iraq. She has five grandchildren. Check out her photo and ask yourself, does she look like she fits the profile of a national security threat?

Oh, one other thing. Deb Davis apparently lost her job after missing three hours due to her arrest. Some will say, "Yeah, but it's her own fault for being stubborn. She could've kept her mouth shut, handed over her ID and kept her job."

That was likely the prevailing view of most Germans in the early days of the Third Reich too. Just keep your mouth shut. Hand over your papers. Look straight ahead and pretend that nothing is happening to those Jewish people.

Sure wouldn't want to lose your job.

The Professional Bull Riders, Inc. (PBR) and Express Sports have declined to renew the lease with the Tulsa Convention Center for the 2006 Express PBR Classic scheduled July 28-30. The decision was made due to city leaders and arena management’s decision to host a competing minor league bull riding event just prior to the Built Ford Tough Series tour stop.
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Funk, Oilers’ owner Jeff Lund, and PBR officials met recently with Mayor Bill LaFortune and Tulsa Chief Operating Officer Alan LaCroix in order to outline the PBR’s stance on the City hosting a Built Ford Tough Series Event immediately following a Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA) bull riding; the PRCA league representing the double-A standard in the sport. The PBR offered the compromise of the PRCA event occurring after the already scheduled and publicized PBR tour date in July. In the final decision, none of PBR’s suggested compromises were entertained or implemented.

"I told him that I did have identification, but I wasn't going to show it to him," Davis explains. "I knew that I wasn't required by law to show ID and that's why I decided I wasn't going to. The whole thing seemed to be more about compliance than security."

According to Davis, the guard proceeded to call on federal cops, who then dragged Davis off a public bus, handcuffed her, shoved her into the back seat of a police car and drove off to a police station within the Federal Center.

While I was unable to reach anyone at the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to comment on Davis' case, the offense/incident report corroborates her basic story.

Though, it should be noted that, according to the arresting officer, Davis became "argumentative" before she "was physically removed from the bus and placed under arrest.