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Lechery is an expectedly prominent theme of this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin. J.F.K.'s model was, of course, his father, Joseph P., financier, politico and womanizer who, foreshadowing his second son's White House trysts, brought his mistress home. An old chum reports that Jack's favorite phrase was "Slam, bam, thank you, ma'am." Inga Arvad, the Danish-born journalist who was Kennedy's lover during the early 1940s, remembers "a boy, not a man, intent upon ejaculation and not a woman's pleasure." Lem Billings, Kennedy's oldest friend, is more sympathetic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jumpin'Jack Flash | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

Robert Knepper successfully captures the seedy, distrusful and selfish chum that is Joey. Unfortunately, his vocal delivery of Joey's songs was at times disappointing...

Author: By Carolyn B. Rendell, | Title: Despite Changes To Original, American Classic Pal Joey Still Impressive | 9/24/1992 | See Source »

Into this stuffy little domestic British world crashes a plane containing two aviators, Bunny's old college chum Joey Percival (Royal E. Miller) and a Polish acrobat named Lina Szczepanowska (played with panache by Candy Buckley). Hypatia seizes on Joey as her deus ex machina, and pursues him with all the zeal of a liberated woman...

Author: By Jendi B. Reiter, | Title: Misalliance Bursts the Bubble of the Bourgeoisie | 7/17/1992 | See Source »

...ROYAL STUD (I). Major Ronald Ferguson, the father of the Duchess of York ("Fergie") and a polo-playing chum of Prince Charles' was revealed to be a loyal member of a London "health" club specializing in massage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pee-Wee Herman Awards | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

...always somebody who couldn't be ignored," says Phil Shinnick, a school chum and currently a research scientist in Brooklyn. "She was queen of the prom and a street fighter. She had an aura about her. She was physically well endowed and always got the best guy." Her beau in those days was Tom Shine, now a Spokane architect. The romance did not last. "We came from different backgrounds," Shine recalled last week. "I knew she wanted to leave Spokane and do other things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Meeeow! The Saga Of Kitty | 4/22/1991 | See Source »

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