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...basically played all the time with my dad.” Tornaritis said. “All that anybody needs is someone to learn from—this is the most important thing—it doesn’t matter...
When Charlie Ferguson was growing up in Beech Grove, Ind., he would help his dad, a connoisseur of spicy food, to plant and tend a backyard crop of chili peppers. So began a lifelong love affair with hot peppers. As an adult, Ferguson found commercial salsa either too salty or not spicy enough for his discerning palate, and he started making his own. By the time he married Glenda Klingensmith eight years ago and moved to her farm in Noblesville, Ind., Ferguson, now 52, was hooked on homemade salsa--so much so that he started planting jalapenos, habaneros, red chilis...
...Everybody has to sacrifice,” Fu said. “She hasn’t had a lot of time to develop a relationship with her dad, but she still wanted to do everything she could to help...
What was radical about Friends was that it assumed these situations were not shocking but a fact of life. Maybe your dad wasn't a drag queen, Friends says, but maybe your parents split up, or maybe you had a confirmed-bachelor uncle whom the family, whatever its politics, had come to accept. If it was important for Murphy Brown to show that a single woman could have a baby in prime time--and spark a war with a Vice President--it was as important that Friends showed that a single woman could have a baby on TV's biggest...
...choice would certainly be in keeping with Chinese tradition. Victor has been the classic filial understudy. He lives with his wife and daughters in the same house as his father. In a rare interview, Victor declined questions about succession but stressed how much he is like his legendary dad: "We're good partners working together ... When we reach decisions, we almost always arrive at similar conclusions." Victor adds that he has taken on many of the day-to-day business operations. At company headquarters in downtown Hong Kong, Victor says, he toils away with middle managers in his ninth-floor...