Word: fathers
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After her baby is born in January (the father is actor Charlie Creed-Miles--another off-limits topic), Morton, now 22, intends to get back to work as soon as she can. But she wants it known she won't take just any job. "I'm not going to sell out," she insists. "I'm not." When Morton speaks--and even when she doesn't--people listen...
...ordered his food yet, and Ben Stein is already crying. It is terribly discomforting to hear a voice so famously monotone disintegrate into squeaky phonemes. But as he talks about his father, the noted conservative economist who died two months ago, he loses it. The late Herbert Stein forced the Watergate to install a satellite dish in his apartment so he could watch his son's Comedy Central game show, Win Ben Stein's Money. "After every show, I'd call my father and ask him the questions," Stein says. "He'd always say he didn't know the ones...
...Stein's father understood the depths of his son's neuroticism. Although he wins more than three-fourths of the $5,000 trivia contests on the Emmy Award-winning game show, Stein is tortured by his losses. That mix of shock, disbelief and self-hatred isn't rehearsed; he says he sees a $250-an-hour psychiatrist to deal with his fear of losing. Stein's wallet is stuffed with affirming notes from the psychiatrist that say things like "This game does not measure your real intelligence, which no one would ever question" and "You are a star, and they...
Stein is not a performer by training. A fallen hippie Yale law graduate (with Hillary Clinton), Stein used his father's connections to get a job as a speechwriter for President Nixon (with Pat Buchanan, David Gergen and John McLaughlin), who was then under siege from, among others, Carl Bernstein, Stein's childhood next-door neighbor and Maryland public high school classmate (with Sylvester Stallone, Goldie Hawn and Connie Chung). Although some have posited him as Deep Throat, Stein has always remained a Nixon loyalist. Tapes of Nixon's resignation show Stein crying, and he insists that he was asked...
Bush can also take comfort in the state's affection for front runners--particularly those named Bush. In 1988, George Bush's tactician, Lee Atwater, set up a "fire wall" in South Carolina, building up such support that the Governor's father was able to bury a threat from Bob Dole. And unlike New Hampshire, which takes pride in wobbling the status quo, South Carolina has regularly put a warm arm around the party establishment's candidate and eventual G.O.P. nominee. It saved Dole after Pat Buchanan's surprise New Hampshire victory...