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...Surefire theater, in short. Such thoughts cannot be entirely dismissed, though Eric Lund's story must be considered on its own merits. When Lund's leukemia was diagnosed, he was a fairly ordinary 17-year-old Connecticut boy of the now apparently rare sort called "normal": tall, blond, outwardly untroubled, a fine soccer player. He was waiting for summer vacation to end so he could enter the University of Connecticut and try out for the freshman team. By the time of his death four years later, Eric had become an extraordinary man. Leukemia, which killed him, forced...
Despite his halo of blond hair and seraphic smile, and those aphorisms he kept delivering in the movie The Little Prince, Steven Warner, 8, is a seasoned trouper. On a jaunt to Hollywood, Steven took along his bus-driver parents John and Rita Warner and his sister Mandy, 10, to enjoy his fame. In an appearance on Dinah!, he brought down the house when asked what he talked to other kids about. "The usual," he said. "My film." And when Gene Wilder, who played with Steven in Prince, protested, "This boy is just being exploited; he isn't having...
...been in deadly earnest. In September a federal grand jury charged that he had conspired to kill Jordan, using a St. Louis advertising salesman as middleman. The purported plot fell through when Merritts and the salesman tried to hire an undercover FBI agent as the triggerman. "They let a blond, blue-eyed agent pass himself off as a member of the Sicilian Mafia," said U.S. Attorney Henry Schwarz, who is prosecuting the case against Merritts...
Racially Valid. On his orders, SS men carried out mass examinations of children in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Norway and France. Those who were healthy and reasonably Aryan-looking - preferably with blond hair, blue eyes and striking features - were pronounced racially valuable...
...percussive rehash of Bizet melodies (some from Carmen, some not), the choreography by Cuba's Alberto Alonso must have seemed madly daring when it was first shown in Moscow seven years ago. In fact, it is full of dated psychological posturings. Moreover, despite strong dancing by blond young (24) Aleksander Godunov, one of Plisetskaya's favorite partners, and Sergei Radchenko, the roles of Don José and the toreador remain lifeless...