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While skateboarding appealed mostly to preadolescents in its first incarnation, the majority of its adherents now range in age from nine to 25; a 72-year-old Angeleno recently bought a new model in order, he explained, to spend more time with his board-bound grandchildren. Many of the most proficient asphalt athletes are surfers who have come ashore, and they claim that the two sports demand many of the same skills. Says SkateBoarder Editor Warren Bolster: "You can go out and do the same things you do on a surfboard, but it's something...
...REAL STORY about Hoffa only comes through between-the-lines, his book is as extreme a self-justification as a public figure could consciously write. Unconsciously, he reveals his sense of majesty: when Hoffa tells of playing with the grandchildren at his Lake Orion, Michigan, summer home, it reminds you of Don Corleone. For Hoffa, wealth and loyalty to family and union are living denials that he has never broken the respectable union boss's code of conduct. But while Leonard Woodcock may have a summer home just like Jimmy's, he is no rebel and will hardly meet...
...Roosevelt is successfully depicted as the gentlemanly savior of the working classes, the voice of reason in the face of Republican conservatism and most of all, a great actor and showman, winning over huge blocks of votes by sheer charm. The film shows him at home playing with his grandchildren, and cruising in the Long Island Sound in his family yacht. But never is Roosevelt so effective as when he mimics his political antagonists. Mora records him in a 1936 speech saying, "The opposition has called me an ogre, a sympathizer with the communists...they have even said I breakfast...
...Smith, to step out of character and hold her first interview in three years. Trouble was, the singer banned photographers and TV cameramen from the Sydney press conference, and Dietrich's representatives handed out a list of two dozen questions that newsmen should avoid asking. Samples: How many grandchildren do you have? How many films did you make? When did you make The Blue Angel? What do you think about women's lib?* Inevitably, someone broke the rules by asking if Dietrich ever planned to make another picture, perhaps her life-story. "Oh dear...
...York, a job that would make the two Provenzano brothers the czars of all the Teamsters in the East. Daniel Sullivan, a former Teamster official and reformer, remembers ominously that on May 5, 1974, Hoffa told him: "Tony Pro threatened to pull my guts out or kidnap my grandchildren if I continued to attempt to return to the presidency of the Teamsters...