Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Somehow, knowing that a devoted father and doting husband lay behind his saucy veneer helped to give his commentary legitimacy. I didn't feel guilty when I laughed at his celebration of primitive masculinity, his politically incorrect comments, his berating of his staff and, perhaps most of all, the exhibitionism of his personal life...
Psychiatrists determined that Matt was suffering from both manic and severe depression. His daily medication is a cocktail that includes Celexa, lithium, Risperidal, vitamin E and caffeine. Because it left him so exhausted, Janet--an insurance analyst who divorced Matt's father six years ago--cut trazodone from the mix. She keeps most of the medicine hidden because she fears that Matt may try to overdose...
...Granderson perches on a stool in his family's kitchen. Normally he shaves his own head, but tonight his dad Bobby Sr. is running the electric razor. It's an awkward moment; this is the most the two of them have spoken in weeks without throwing a gibe. His father compliments Bobby's handling of the clippers. He's been trying to talk his son into going to trade school or perhaps opening a barbershop with him. The remark hits a nerve, but Bobby hides it. Will his dad ever understand...
...love at home. As suave and polite as he seems to outsiders, he has "two personalities," says his stepmother Willie. "He's a con artist." His parents kicked him out of the house in August, trying to scare him after he came home drunk at 5 a.m. Later his father told him to do something, and Bobby refused. "I got tired of hearing what he wasn't going to do," says Bobby Sr., who smacked him with a stick, hurting his feelings more than anything. Bobby walked to a gas station and called police, who sided with...
...Louis' South Side. James has a younger brother and sister, and had an older brother Anthony Morris. "But he died. Some guys robbed and killed him." It happened three days after James' birthday. "I was 15," he says. (He still is.) He was 14, he says, when his father died. When Adams promises to talk about "some of the most serious and fundamental things in life," James is listening. "Now if my pastor [at St. Louis Christian Center in the city] preaches about something, and I don't really understand what it means," he says, "I could go to Young...