Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Stewart's quest for perfection began early. As the second eldest of six children in a middle-class, Nutley, N.J., household -- her mother taught sixth grade and her father sold pharmaceuticals -- Martha Kostyra spent high school weekends working as a model. While a Barnard student in the early 1960s, she pulled in as much as $35,000 a year from her modeling, enough to support herself and her husband, publisher Andrew Stewart, whom she married in her sophomore year. It was his family that acquainted her with the high life. "My introduction to grownup entertaining came at a dinner party...
...ladies who looked like great aunts. The stains on the wallpaper got to be old friends. If you came in past 11:30 p.m., you found the door locked. Eventually, the night porter would answer the bell, not exactly in his bathrobe but looking the way your girlfriend's father used to when you brought her home late. If your step was wobbly on these occasions, the porter looked concerned. Rates passed for cheap in midtown -- $80 for a small suite -- and if you had not checked in for a while, the desk clerk asked after your health...
...their soda-shop infatuation scene has ever been performed better. Miller, though, is not quite up to the last act's demands of kittenish adolescence combined with otherworldly grace. The rest of the 27- member cast is solid, and Peter Maloney is memorable as Emily's jocular yet practical father...
...first of those works was a futuristic novel called Pebble in the Sky, in 1950. "I presented a copy to my father," Asimov remembers. "I think it was then that he finally forgave me my failure to get into medical school ten years before." Actually, he was in medical school -- Boston University School of Medicine -- but as an instructor in biochemistry. The meager salary, plus payments for occasional sci-fi short stories, supported Asimov, his first wife and their son and daughter for ten years. It was then that he decided to break for New York City and a free...
Cunning, cynical young Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) learns he has been cut out of his father's $3 million estate, which has gone to an older brother, Raymond (Dustin Hoffman), whom he did not know existed. Ray has long been institutionalized because he is an autistic savant. He has a genius for instant mathematical calculation, but he keeps reality and affection at bay by piling barricades of useless information around himself and by insisting, maddeningly, monotonously, monomaniacally, that certain routines, involving meals and TV viewing, be rigorously observed. Charlie abducts him, hoping to gain control of his inheritance, and they...