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I always worry that death will be a restless sleep, that there won’t be peace, but a constant tossing and turning trying to find something that’s always out of my capacity to achieve. I’ve had sleeping difficulties all my adult life, so when I wake now, I’m unsurprised. I don’t know the time. My clock radio has an LCD display – I bought it years ago for specifically that reason: LCD numbers don’t glow in the dark, and don’t remind me of the time. That’s just one of the sleep strategies I’ve learned. Most of them don’t work. Nothing works for everybody, and, for various reasons, my head’s particularly resistant.…
A Look Back: The Sixth Sense
The Sixth Sense is a 1999 supernatural drama in which a troubled eight-year-old boy, Cole (a brilliant Haley Joel Osment) claims he can talk to the dead. Malcolm Crowe (Bruce Willis) is a child psychologist suffering from guilt after one of his former patients, Vincent (Donnie Wahlberg), visits him years later and shoots him, then takes his own life. In trying to help Cole, Malcolm sees possible redemption. Cole’s mother, Lynn (Toni Collette) struggles to cope with the pressures of being a single mother while things are going on around her that she doesn’t understand. The movie catapulted writer/director M. Night Shyamalan to fame and had everybody talking about its…