"You show her three bridesmaids gowns and whichever one she sees last is the one," says her mother at one point, worried that Monica and David don't assert themselves enough. "With her wedding gown, it was the same thing."
As the mother of a son with Down syndrome who has opinions on everything from clothes to video games - and isn't shy about expressing them - I'd caution against judging a diverse population by these two. But Codina, who's Monica's cousin, manages to capture the traits that make her subjects individuals while setting their experiences against a discussion of people with cognitive disabilities who may be capable of more independence than they're afforded.
* The riveting rescue of the long-trapped Chilean miners has been a gift for cable news, whose talking heads couldn't be expected to focus on Delaware's Senate race for much longer without resorting to witchcraft themselves.
But as Larry King returned to CNN about midnight Tuesday, as the world waited for the second of the 33 miners to arrive on the surface, it seemed clear some microphones need to be kept on mute.
In contrast to Fox News' Shepard Smith - whom I actually caught twice Tuesday night saying he didn't know something rather than just winging it, Rick Sanchez-style - King seems to regard his TV platform the way some of us do Twitter: as a forum for our stream-of-consciousness thoughts.
Unless you're Ashton Kutcher, though, your Twitter feed probably isn't reaching as many people as King might on a night when there was actual news.
So when King mentioned that the next miner expected out, Mario Sepulveda, shared a name with Los Angeles' Sepulveda Boulevard - "I drove on it yesterday!" - it seemed clearer than ever that Dec. 16, the last night of "Larry King Live," can't come soon enough.
