Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first the conversation is strained. He warms up after about 20 minutes, talking about his boys and how he trained them, and especially about Michael: ".I remember when Michael was a little kid. We used to do personal appearances on Friday and Saturday nights. I'd take the children out all over the city and into other cities. Michael would get his allowance every week from the tours. I gave him $20, and he would buy a lot of candy. He would call all his friends in the neighborhood and Michael would give them candy, and he would enjoy...
Endearingly, his mother Sherry said, "Right now I could kick him right between the eyeballs." Watching him sweating at the press conference, she thought, "I wanted this kid to enjoy it," but she understood. "He keeps seeing Roger Staubach in front of him." (At these prices, Young may be obliged to become Johnny Unitas.) "You have to remember, Steve has had a protected life. He doesn't even own a credit card." Until now, his concept of property has been a '65 Oldsmobile. "But he'll be fine, because he's a fighter, a doer...
...world champion race car driver Shirley Muldowney from Schenectady housewife to champ, Heart Like a Wheel evokes expectations of an automotive Breaking Away. No such luck, Director Jonathan Kaplan gets us in the car, but the ride is always too short. We feel a bit like the little kid who puts his only shiny quarter in the plastic horsey, expecting an exhilarating ride but only receiving a few quick, neck-snapping bobs...
...friend and adviser, a very talented man, very intelligent, very creative, possibly a genius." The high praise came from Gary Hart. The object of his admiration: Pat Caddell, 33, the former whiz-kid pollster who has become a key figure in the Hart campaign since coming aboard as "an informal adviser" in January...
DIED. Jackie Coogan, 69, the actor who became the movies' first blockbuster child star when, at age six, he played the moonfaced ragamuffin in Charlie Chaplin's 1921 classic The Kid; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. The son of vaudevillians, Coogan starred in such vehicles as Peck's Bad Boy (1921) and Tom Sawyer (1930), and in 1923 was voted America's most popular movie actor. "Other boys went to see Babe Ruth," he recalled a half-century later. "Babe Ruth came to see me." Though he had made more than $2 million...