Word: aunt
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...knew going in that I really wanted to get as many good actors as possible. I had Mary Klug, who played Leonardo DiCaprio’s aunt in “The Departed”; she played the boy’s grandmother. There’s a really well known actor around here named Ted Kazanoff who’s about 80-years-old and he played the grandfather. I also had Dossy Peabody, who’s really well known around here as well. She was really great. I called up my rabbi and he told...
...been featured in Kleenex advertisements, starred in TV shows and animated shorts, and appeared on merchandise such as magic slates.Buell said he doesn’t know why his mother christened her most famous creation “Lulu.”“My mother had an aunt named Lulu (nickname for Louise), but that may be sheer coincidence,” he wrote.If the American Heritage Dictionary is anything to go by, “Lulu” is a fitting name: “A remarkable person, object, or idea...
...They've called me Aunt Jemima, a sellout, a traitor to my race...
...history: while in Congress his father, Harold Ford Sr., was indicted on federal bank fraud charges (he was ultimately acquitted); that uncle John Ford was forced last year to resign his state senate seat after being indicted on federal bribery charges for which he now awaits trial; and that aunt Ophelia Ford was ousted from her state senate seat because of voting irregularities...
...bales of hay onto trucks. "I can smell it now," he says, perking up in his Lake Forest, Ill., office, loading faux hay over his shoulder. "We didn't know about lifting weights. Haaaay! That's what you got." The name Lovie he got from his great-aunt Lavana, no doubt requiring him to become a very tolerant man. His most stirring performance took place in 1988, when his son Matthew, then 2, fell into the family's pool. (Smith was an assistant at Arizona State.) Though afraid of water, Smith jumped in and pulled a tiny blue body from...