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...baby sells itself and needs no advertising copy," advises the author. And so, at $14.95 apiece, will Fatherhood. But just in case, Doubleday has planned a $300,000 promotion campaign, and will swamp stores with a first printing of 750,000 copies. Featuring an introduction and afterword by Dr. Alvin F. Poussaint, the Harvard psychiatrist and script adviser on Cosby's hit TV series, the 192-page parental primer is already a Literary Guild selection. A new comedy album, called Those of You With or Without Children, You'll Understand, will be released shortly, to boost and be boosted...
...solo TV series, he played a high school coach; it ended after only two seasons, in 1971, but by the '80s he got the formula perfectly tuned to the popular funnybone. After raising five children of his own, Cosby in his concerts was increasingly inspired by the bemusement of fatherhood. And it all came together in Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, the beleaguered, loving father of five, who is at the center of NBC's The Cosby Show, one of the most successful sitcoms in TV history. The show's enormous popularity, Cosby has said, was "a major, major step, not just...
Much of that audience will probably be reading Fatherhood. They will get what they expect, including a fair measure of out-loud laughs. Cosby is still mystified about the motives for baby making ("a kind of erotic arts and crafts"), and he disdains overtly proud dads who believe "mere fertilization is a reason for the high five." Interfamilial wars particularly stir his | juices. "Always end the name of your child with a vowel," he counsels, "so that when you yell, the name will carry." The generations must ever gap. "No matter how he talks, a father cannot sound...
...father. She put down the name of some guy in New Jersey. Can you beat that? I told her she wasn't getting a dime until Michael had my name, and I went to court to make it legal. I could have murdered her then. She killed my fatherhood from the beginning, the first born...
...companion John McEnroe, 26, splenetic tennis star, now serving a 21-day suspension from professional competition for incurring more than $7,500 this year in bad-conduct fines. After weeks of denying rumors, McEnroe told the Los Angeles Herald Examiner that he was "proud of" his impending fatherhood. The couple has not set a wedding date...