Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...similarity to "Little Black Sambo"; that tale takes place in India. Africa has no tigers, and black was used by the British to refer to the Indians. Besides, what's so insulting about a boy who uses his wits and wins over four tigers? Sambo was one sharp kid...
...first wife, Jane Wyman) retired from a lackluster show-business career -a little singing, a little acting, a success as a local television talk-show host in the early '70s. "I didn't want to be 40 years old and still billed as somebody's kid." Now an executive with Sell Overseas America, an organization promoting overseas exports, she is finally 40, recently married to her third husband, Dennis Revell, 28, a law clerk, and still billed as somebody's kid-and an unpredictable one at that...
Irving, 39, a former collegiate and A.A.U. wrestler, has been hired by Director George Roy Hill (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) to coach Williams for Garp's match at Steering School, the fictional New England prep school of the novel. Accompanied by Sons Colin, 16, and Brendan, 11, Irving arrives at the Millbrook gym dressed to grapple: red singlet, kneepads and ear guards that resemble perforated saucers. In preparation for his role as the epical Wrestler-Writer T.S. Garp, "Mork" Williams has selected a modified outer-space look: a shiny blue and green workout suit that encases...
...History takes time," Irving once wrote. "I couldn't wait to grow up," he now says, remembering his years at Exeter. "I was a humorless kid. I was not an entertainer; I was very grim." Frankie Irving's view of her son is less harsh: "He was not an exuberant or overenthusiastic child, although I don't think it's quite accurate to label him as an introvert. I think he kept a lot of things to himself." Classmate Charles C. Krulak, now a lieutenant colonel...
...causing a couple of thousand dollars in damages. Vocalist David Lee Roth, 25, has further problems. His sexually suggestive antics whip pubescent fans into a frenzy and sometimes put naughty ideas into young girls' heads. Says Roth: "I get letters all the time saying, 'I got a kid and it looks like you and it needs a bicycle now and some pencils and a notebook by next year.' " His defense: a unique form of paternity insurance with Lloyd's of London for a premium of more than $10,000 a year...