In one scene from The Ringer, the recent Farrelly brothers’ movie (There’s Something about Mary, Dumb and Dumber), a gang of Special Olympics athletes clad in nothing more than towels, leads an exuberant steamroom dance. It’s my seventeen-year-old son Tim’s favorite scene in the film. Why? “Because they’re having so much fun, and no one my (...)
The Last Word
Unlikely Heroes
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