Word: dads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...eight, his parents were divorced. It was a painful time, and Eddie took refuge from the street gangs and drugs by concentrating on baseball. It was also a way of sidestepping the legal arrangement that restricted his father to only eight hours with young Eddie every 15 days. "My dad couldn't come to the house, but he could come to the ball park," says Olmos. "At every game I ever played, he was there...
...spending as much time as possible with Kaija, 38, and his sons, now twelve and 15, at the island house they own off the coast of Florida and at their recently purchased ranch-style home in Encino, Calif. Though both boys have had small featured roles in their dad's movies, Olmos takes great pains to keep them out of the celebrity spotlight. "Everyone could always do better," Olmos says. "But I think I spend a good deal of time with my kids. I think I'm a good father...
...dance, priests shaking holy water on farm fields and prayer gatherings in sale barns. Show business. The forces out there are so huge and incomprehensible, you don't waste energy trying to stop them in their tracks. You hunker down, you survive. Malard has for 60 years, and his dad before him, and before that his grandfather, who homesteaded on the Missouri River...
...Malard might stare even that specter down for a little while longer. He did as a boy in the 1930s. "The country around here is not as bad off as it was then, not yet anyway," Malard said. His dad planted seeds that never sprouted. The dust blew so much it covered a hog house on his grandfather's farm. Malard walked right over the top of it. About the only thing that dimmed the sun during the big dry of those years was the clouds of swarming grasshoppers...
...office for several hours. The Dukakises prospered, but they are remembered by friends as close but not joyful, never relishing success as much as building on it. Panos had few distractions; he never swung a baseball bat or shot a basketball with his kids. Says Michael: "My dad was not an intellectual. His two passions in life were medicine and his family, in reverse order." The warmest memories Dukakis has of his father are the evenings he would make it home in time to tuck him into bed. Alexandra Dukakis, Panos' sister-in-law, recalls that Dr. Dukakis would drop...