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...Tudor house, and the result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia. The menagerie, the soda fountain, the screening room are dream toys of childhood and the diversions of Southern California show-business affluence, all awash in the pastels of perennial boyhood. He takes trips to the Disney parks as to a shrine. He has spoken often about doing a movie musical of Peter Pan. --TIME, March...
DIED. PAUL HENNING, 93, creator of the long-running 1960s sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies (and its spin-off, Petticoat Junction); in Burbank, Calif. Henning, who composed the show's theme song, The Ballad of Jed Clampett, based the hit series on locals he encountered during his boyhood camping trips in the Ozarks...
Three decades or so after his injury, Howie lives in his boyhood home in a Midwestern town that could be Cleveland, Ohio. With both his parents dead, he has a makeshift family of housemates that includes Nit and Nat, affable slacker lunkheads, and Laurel Cao, a level-headed, sexy Vietnamese American from Texas who makes gourmet soups for sale to local shops. He also has a steady, undemanding job doing maintenance and yard work for a local convent. What he does not have is any particular hope for the future...
Duelfer's report also gives an extraordinary, intimate glimpse into the dictator's behavior. Lieutenants thought his psychology was "powerfully shaped by a deprived and violent boyhood in a village and tribal society," especially by the strong influence of his xenophobic guardian uncle. One aide said Saddam "loved the use of force," confirming the tale that in 1982 he "ordered the execution" of a disloyal minister "and delivery of the dismembered body to the victim's wife...
...girl's parents' nightmare: three high school guys who care more about scoring with girls than on the infield. "They say boys think about sex every 15 seconds," says Ben (Jon Foster). "I think about it every five seconds." For life, this is the fundamental truth of teen boyhood--who can argue?--and the stories are all about sex, its pursuit and its complications. Handsome jock Dino (Sean Faris) has a girlfriend but can't get her to have sex with him. Awkward Jonathan (Chris Lowell) has a friend, Deborah (Kelly Osbourne...