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While still a boy, Carter began planning to escape Plains by going to Annapolis?one place where a farm lad with little cash could get a free education. Afraid that flat feet might rule him out, he used to stand on Coke bottles and roll back and forth to strengthen his arches. His mother?the formidable Miss Lillian?opened his mind to the world of books and ideas, and a schoolteacher named Julia Coleman saw the promise in the youngster and had him struggling gamely through War and Peace at the age of twelve...
...neither a boy nor a soprano much longer-unless an alteration is performed on his anatomy. Church officials, including the Pope, decide that they and Hubert have no choice; such a talent must be preserved for the greater veneration and glory of God. Hubert, a devout and obedient lad, would nonetheless like to know what he will be missing from the manhood that is not to be his. "I know it's glorious to have God's favor," says the potential castrato, "and I'm as grateful...
...Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid such problems in her next movie, The Great Day. She is cast as the mother...
...Prince Hal from Falstaffs history, virtually without alteration. When Bolingbroke, the nearly crowned Henry IV, sneers despairingly at "my unthrifty son ... young wanton and effeminate boy" in the fifth act of Richard II, he is no distance at all from Falstaffs characterization of the young Hal as "the lad who was twice sick in my hat." Hal's cold renunciation of Falstaff on coronation day in Henry V is- begging the difference of a thy and a thee- word for word the same in the play and the autobiography: "I know you not, old man. Fall to your prayers...
...rimmed glasses. After six years of diligent work in his drab little Welsh seaside town, Charlie still boards in a room formerly occupied by a pickle salesman. He has barely risen to be fifth of six clerks. "That's a safe job," everybody tells Charlie until the poor lad, in quiet panic, begins to see 40 years to retirement stretching ahead...