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...Happily married with four appropriately cherubic daughters and wealthy beyond the wildest dreams of his California boyhood, the 43-year-old Kinkade is frank about his artistic goals. "The paintings have an agenda," he says. "The agenda is that a simpler way of living is a better way of living. That family is and should be the foundation for our way of life. That love is better than hate, that beauty is better than ugliness. I call it the lifestyle of light...
...Japan, where his father was stationed as a U.S. Air Force pilot, he was brought up in England, Georgia, Texas and Naples, Italy, where he graduated from high school. Since his parents divorced when he was young, Waddle did not have much contact with his father during his boyhood. His mother Barbara remarried, to another Air Force pilot, but his stepfather, quiet and reserved, was not the model for Waddle's own personality. Says he: "I'm not like that. I am loud and opinionated--I like to be the center of attention." Even his acts of generosity take...
...Uncle Boula Boula steal the show. If you can ignore the political flag-waving, the book makes for light and lively reading. But those looking for an insightful look at contemporary Africa will likely be disappointed: Little Boys Come from the Stars is more a charming story of boyhood interspersed with political satire, than vice versa...
...Several years ago while driving across Arkansas, I left the interstate to visit Hope, to see Bill Clinton's boyhood home. There I purchased a postcard that is my favorite item of presidential memorabilia. It shows Clinton's fifth grade class (little Billy unmistakable). The caption on the back reads as follows...
...stagings of Nocturne and The Ohio State Murders at the Hasty Pudding) guides an undergraduate cast through the nuances of adapting a script and tightening the focus of the production to regard the emotional masks we wear to hide ourselves from the world. The story is one of a boyhood friendship fractured by competition over a beautiful woman (ahhh...beautiful women). Reunited years later, the two men find themselves clinging to one another for survival even as try to destroy each other. All of the characters must wade through pain, suffering and isolation to find something that could pass...