Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Three years ago, the kid from Brooklyn won a job as a featured player on NBC's revamped Saturday Night Live; he was paid $750 a show. "His effect was dazzling," says John Landis, his director on Trading Places, of those early shows. "There was a ding! when he walked on, almost like Marilyn Monroe." Soon he was the program's one breakout star. Next season he will return for at least ten shows, at $30,000 an appearance...
Also critical to Parker's theme were the latest network demographic surveys. Originally, she had planned a theatrical film for actresses Kristie McNichol and Jane Fonda. But because the movie audience is "a kid's audience"--15 to 22--that feels threatened by the Harvard mystique. Parker said. The studios suggested the University of Chicago as a more "fun," "collegiate" environment...
That is Díaz's message. He chaperones the boys everywhere. "From our example," he notes, "kids see that if you work hard you can get what you desire." Menudo's members, mostly sons of the middle class, do seem to work hard, and they get a lot. "I'll give you an idea of what they make," says Diaz. "One kid paid $60,000 in income taxes this year...
Some of the play is unabashedly autobiographical. Like Arnold, Fierstein grew up in a lower-middle-class area of Brooklyn. "No one says he had a normal, happy childhood, and I guess mine was as peculiar as anyone else's. I was a fat kid and grew up like an average fat kid. It's never easy, but it isn't the hardest thing in the world, either." He told his parents he was gay when he was 13, and the discovery was not particularly traumatic. "There was no crying or screaming in my presence," he recalls...
...Kid Blackie before he was Jack Dempsey, and he was William Harrison Dempsey before that. Also the Manassa Mauler, for the Colorado cow town where he was born on June 24, 1895. Toughening his face by marinating it in brine, hardening his jaw by chomping pine gum, Dempsey set out hoboing across the West and brawling in saloons. "You and your opponent would go at it," he exlpained, "and if the bar patrons liked it, they'd pass...