Word: coco
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Time was, not so long ago, when to be fat, balding, unmarried and in your late 30s was to be scorned by strangers, pitied by the family and ridiculed by friends of friends. Not any more. Not, that is, if you are James Coco, a fat, balding, bachelor of 39 who opened to rave notices last week as Barney Cashman in Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Neil Simon's latest smash...
Flop After Flop. "I used to stand around the Strand Theater," Coco told TIME Reporter Mary Cronin, "waiting for the stars to give me their autographs. Mom and Pop could never understand it." Pop was Feliche Coco, a shoemaker; James shined shoes and generally had "a really dull childhood." At 17 he joined a children's theater and toured for three years playing Old King Cole and Hans Brinker for $40 a week. From there it was years and years of summer-stock stints, auditioning, studying and touring. Finally, he started on TV commercials. Most of his fans know...