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...actress he married this past April. Spencer is pregnant with Crowe's first child, a son, due in January. I ask if domesticity has calmed him, and he raises a hand: Eat, then interview. When lunch is over, he says, "I'm sure regardless of my marriage and impending fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes out to bars simply to prove that he is not too famous to go out to bars. "I am a famous actor," he says with the grim acceptance of a recovering addict...
...QUESTIONS: Bill O'Reilly on his new book, fatherhood and why Al Franken deserved to get sued...
...least one stupid human trick he can perform himself, DAVID LETTERMAN shared a rare piece of personal news with the Late Show audience last week: his longtime girlfriend, former Late Show staff member Regina Lasko, 42, is very pregnant. During the show, sidekick bandleader Paul Shaffer suggested that fatherhood might soften the curmudgeonly host, who underwent quadruple-bypass surgery nearly four years ago. Or maybe not. "If you look at it this way," Letterman told the audience, "at 56, by the time the child has trouble in life ... I'll be long gone. By the time...
...Fathers are depicted somewhat better in commercials," says Roland Warren, President of the National Fatherhood Initiative, which tracked 102 prime time programs over the course of five weeks to determine how fathers fare on the tube. "But on your typical TV series, I'm sorry to say that Dad still falls into the 3 D's category - dumb, dangerous or disinterested...
...working stiffs and parents too. The Toy Story tandem and A Bug's Life were clever parables of workplace camaraderie. And the two most recent Pixar films are stories of not-quite-mature men (in the guise of monsters or clown fish) who learn the onerous joys of fatherhood. Like many classic Disney cartoons, and Spielberg fables, Finding Nemo is about the traumatic separation of a child from his parent. The refreshing difference here is that Nemo dramatizes the anxiety (and adventures) a parent undergoes searching for his wayward, precious...