Specialty airfares

It’s been drilled into our heads that the best way to get a cheap airline ticket is to buy it well in advance of your travel date. But parents adopting children from overseas often have no idea when that date might be. And once their adoption agency gives them the go-ahead to bring home their child, they typically have only a matter of days to make all the arrangements.

“Trail of Crumbs” by Kim Sunee

With Trail of Crumbs: Hunger, Love, and the Search for Home (Grand Central, 370 pages, $24.99), first-time author Kim Sunee writes a fascinating account of her life thus far. Abandoned as a child in South Korea, Sunee remembers telling the policemen who found her that her name was Chong Ae Kim, she was 3 years old and her mother — who had left her with a small fistful of food — would be coming back for her. endure insensitive remarks from people who don’t understand the longing children may feel for the birth families they can no longer remember.

David O. Russell used his own experiences to add realism to “Flirting With Disaster” 

Writer-director David O. Russell looks a lot like Ben Stiller, who stars in Russell’s latest picture,  “Flirting With Disaster.”  The  physical similarity hasn’t been lost on the director of the critically acclaimed “Spanking the Monkey.” “I wouldn’t say that that’s why Ben got the part,” Russell said earlier this month during a lunch interview at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel downtown.  “But yes, it’s come to my attention that there is a likeness between the two of us.”