Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been in Minnesota two weeks now, and it gets better each day. Where else but the Midwest will your cashier admit to you, in front of your father, that she, too, has her "monthly visitor...
Onlookers applauded when Sophie arrived with her father, a former tire salesman. Considerably less crinolined than the dresses of Diana and Sarah, Sophie's fitted silk-organza-and-crepe gown nevertheless boasted 325,000 cut-glass and pearl beads and a formidable train. Her veil was affixed with a diamond tiara borrowed from the Queen...
...always seem to have the makings of a superstar, but the boy who would become Tim McGraw was country from the word go. He grew up in Start, La., a town, he says, that consisted of "a cotton gin, a couple churches and a school or two." Tim's father Horace Smith, a trucker, would take his son on runs, a load of cottonseed in the back, eight-track tapes of Johnny Paycheck and Charley Pride in the front. "By the time I was six," says McGraw, "I felt as if I knew the words to every album Merle Haggard...
When McGraw turned 11, his life seemed to become a country song. Searching through closets to get an early gander at Christmas presents, he came across his birth certificate. He couldn't read the name listed for father, but the occupation read "baseball player." He says his mother Betty fessed up that his biological father was major-league baseball pitcher Tug McGraw. Tim struck up a cordial relationship with him and later changed his last name but still considers Smith, who raised him, his "real" father...
Born in Toronto in 1892, Gladys Marie Smith was five when her father died; she revered his memory and refashioned it in dozens of movies about kids grieving for their sainted dead dads. To earn money Mary, Jack and Lottie went onstage. Soon they were in New York City, where, at 17, Mary strode into Griffith's Biograph studio and got a film...