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...Though he did recurring TV guest bits, George didn't make the big bucks playing a dad or a lawyer on one of those long-running series whose residuals have provided silk cushions for hundreds of lesser actors. Few actors can accept only the roles they love in guaranteed masterpieces. George was a working actor, who took projects as they came his way. He once observed with a grunt and a smile that of all his work in the '80s he was probably best known as Tom Hanks' scowling, finally humiliated future father-in-law in the rowdy film Bachelor...
...fatherhood. "Men today are far more involved with their families than they have been at virtually any other time in the last century," says Michael Kimmel, author of Manhood in America: A Cultural History. In the late 1970s, sociologists at the University of Michigan found that the average dad spent about a third as much time with his kids as the average mom did. By 2000, that was up to three-fourths. The number of stay-at-home fathers has tripled in the past 10 years. The Census counts less than 200,000, but those studying the phenomenon...
...Hollywood standards, he virtually has, opting mostly for low-budget indies over the kind of effects spectaculars that buy a guy his first yacht. "Everyone's like 'Wow, you really slummed it on Half Nelson,'" he says. "For two months of work I made way more than my dad would make in a year working at a paper mill. You get all this credit for slumming it in the indie world. It's bullshit. Actors make good money." He seems pretty careful with it too, opting to live in L.A.'s not yet gentrified Skid Row rather than actor-bait...
...even existed. Other factors about Paul's blood - like the presence of prescription drugs that none of his doctors remember prescribing for him, and high levels of carbon monoxide that nobody can account for - have some observers questioning the reliability of the tests. The legal team representing Dodi's dad, Mohamed Al Fayed, are claiming that the blood tested wasn't even Paul's, which Baker responded to - but not really - when he said that DNA tests "appear" to show that...
...values we hope to instill in our students—commitment to community service, academic performance, musical pursuits—he really is a prototype of our foundation scholars.” The scholarship application involved an essay about Jackie Robinson, for whom Robinson’s dad was named. “I remember writing about his struggle in the Major Leagues,” says Robinson. “I feel like I struggled a bit in high school with racial issues, and it’s important to know someone else went through something much larger than...