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...result is a cross between a vest-pocket Disneyland and Citizen Kane's Xanadu in suburbia (see following story). 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. The parallels are as obvious as they are misleading...
Hart's father was a farm-equipment salesman, his mother a Sunday-school teacher. At age ten, says Uncle Ralph Hartpence, "Gary could talk to adults and make sense." His boyhood was wholesome and placid: small-town Kansas just before rock 'n' roll, lazy evening drives up and down Main Street, hanging out at the Dairy Queen with Best Pal Duane Hoobing or reading at the library. "He was good-looking and could have been very popular," says Hoobing, who teaches citizenship at a junior high school not far from Ottawa, "but he wouldn't pursue...
...boyhood: I was born into a large and poor peasant family in the Krasnoyarsk region of Siberia in 1911. I lost my mother when I was a young boy. At twelve I went to work for a wealthy master to earn my living. New Soviet life was just coming into its own, and I felt its fresh winds when I had joined the Young Communist League. That was back in 1926. We studied and held down our jobs at the same time. We were underfed and poorly clothed, but the dream of a radiant future for all fascinated...
...central character is a cancer researcher (Sam Waterston) who has superficially mastered all he surveys in the adult world but who remains fixated on the griefs of his childhood. The set is a blasted-heath garden in which the fretful doctor's boyhood playthings-including building blocks that spell out his name-have been mortared into the walls, ostensibly by his long-dead mother. He ruefully explains: "It was her way of teaching me not to leave my toys outside." The audience for the premiere production, at Harvard University's American Repertory Theater, soon realizes that this remark...
Presidents sometimes seem to resemble their houses. The great head and strong jaw of Franklin Roosevelt fitted in with his stately Hudson River mansion at Hyde Park. Lyndon Johnson, weathered and slit-eyed, sometimes looked as if he came with the clapboards of his boyhood home in Johnson City, Texas. Reagan's home seems tall and open like...