He did not enjoy the producer's role, complaining that "for some extraordinary reason that I could never understand, everybody was always out to do the producer of any film whoever he was.
"We've discussed it and he understands everybody is going to think he made a snap decision, a quick, irrational decision, a stupid decision.
He tried pleading: "Now look, let me just understand — everybody — we're all right.
But even at an ordinary party, I think these young women understand that everybody is skating on thin ice, moving in the slippery territory between "you" and "I".
Like one of those loaves, "Family Tree" can lay claim to a fair share of ingredients that sound admirable: standing up for principle, defending the environment, overcoming adversity, valuing friendship and coming to understand that everybody is good at something.
"We understand that everybody is looking to us," says Dmitri Denisov, a physicist at Fermilab and co-spokesperson for the D0 team.
And Timothy Geithner can't understand why everybody isn't happy.
"I was bombarded with trying to understand who everybody was, what happened, why everybody was rioting, why people were getting killed," Mr. Okamura, 40, said recently.
Liberty eventually came to understand why everybody was looking for her, her mother said, and now she is glad to know that children are safe in a Wal-Mart store.
I remember reading an interview with John Peel in about 1987 when he said: "I don't understand why everybody's still listening to Led Zeppelin when we have good music coming out now.
