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...honor at his adored stepdaughter Chelsea King Garza's wedding, dancing with the bride to the Temptations' oldie My Girl. (He also had the distinctly parental honor of footing the bill for the wedding gown.) Strictly speaking, Chelsea isn't a stepdaughter--after Martis and his former wife Joy Ficket split in 1982, Joy's two kids from her first marriage were no longer tied to him. But Davis didn't want to let Chelsea, then 8, and her brother Gabren, 10, pass out of his life, so he maintained an active relationship with them, attending school events, taking...
Staying involved with his stepkids after his marriage ended was a priority, says Davis, 58, now director of media relations for the American Association of Retired Persons in Washington. "Even though Joy and I were no longer married, I'd been in the kids' lives since they were little, and I felt we all needed to stay close. Walking away from these children was unthinkable. I couldn't stand the thought that they might be disappointed in me," he explains. Says ex-wife Ficket: "From the beginning of our relationship, Martis embraced and helped raise these children...
After two reports focusing on her professional life, her 15-year class report instead focuses on newfound joy in her personal life: Agatha informs her classmates of the birth of a baby daughter, Jasmine, in March...
...characters of Cabaret struggle with their present in light of a troubled future. It is only appropriate, then, that directors Sabrina K. Blum ’03 and Joy B. Fairfield ’03 would struggle with elements of time as well. Cabaret first debuted on Broadway in 1966, was reincarnated as a movie in 1972, and revived on Broadway by director Sam Mendes in 1998. With a loyal fan base, Cabaret challenged Blum and Fairfield to find their own creative voice while avoiding an alienation of Cabaret devotees who might view change as betrayal...
Favorite movie: The Joy Luck Club...