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...adjust, going to different schools, having to learn a different language in Germany. We’d be back to Ontario, and I’d have my friends there, but I’d have been away for six [or] seven months when my dad was in season...It was tough adjusting to the different social settings...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Follows Family Trade | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

...always loved the game, and I loved being around it,” Conor says. “Before my dad would practice in Europe I’d go out on the ice before the teams skated and skate by myself...

Author: By Scott A. Sherman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frosh Follows Family Trade | 2/24/2010 | See Source »

Also impressive is Jerome Stephens Jr., who plays the young Simba. Though only a skinny boy of nine, he manages to pack a musical punch. While his lines largely read as formulaic and somewhat trite (“I just want to be brave like you, Dad,” he insists cloyingly to his father), and the development of his character is confined to the wild, wide-eye child role, he’s undeniably a vocal powerhouse packed in a pint-sized body...

Author: By Clio C. Smurro, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Lion King' Tour Reigns Supreme | 2/23/2010 | See Source »

...literary apprenticeships go, Hill's was tough to beat. "I'd come home from school and find my mom [novelist Tabitha King] in her office clattering away at the keyboard, and my dad would be in his office sitting in front of his word processor," he says. "By the time I was 11 or 12, it seemed perfectly natural to go to your room and make stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Devil's Due | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

...hoax was just embarrassing and not deadly. But the sleaziest, and saddest, aspect of their whole story was the implication that their kids were being raised to think it was all a normal thing that people do to help the family business. As Falcon Heene blurted to his dad on Larry King Live, "You guys said that we did this for the show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reality TV at 10: How It's Changed Television — and Us | 2/22/2010 | See Source »

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