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People seemed to admire John simply for the poise with which he moved through the crowd of echoes and expectations that followed him everywhere. "It's very good to be the son of a legend," Larry King observed to his guest one night. "It's complicated," John replied, "and it makes for a rich and complicated life"--as though he knew that he mattered less for anything he did than for what he meant...
...real power was his eldest, Joe Jr. When Jack Kennedy made the papers for his exploits as skipper of PT-109, the father sent the press clippings to Joe Jr., then a 29-year-old naval air lieutenant, to provoke him into getting started on his own heroic legend. It worked all too well. In the summer of 1944, Joe Jr. volunteered to fly a plane loaded with explosives into a Nazi missile site. The plan was for him to bail out before the plane struck its target. Instead he was killed when the plane exploded prematurely over the English...
...talk, commenting only that her Caucasian mother had played both parental roles. That pat answer might once have been enough, but her run at Wimbledon renewed the speculation. Last week a Florida newspaper published a birth certificate listing her father as Julius Winfield Erving II. That's basketball legend Dr. J, the dignified, eloquent superstar whose spectacular play, and class off the court, helped lift the NBA back to pre-eminence in the late '70s and early '80s. Married since 1972, Erving had always been portrayed as a dedicated family man. After first denying the reports, on Friday he admitted...
...four horny virgins, the luscious girl who undresses in a boy's bedroom, the seductive mom who likes her whiskey and her men aged 18--virtually every urban legend of teen porn can be found in this all-raunch, no-style sex comedy. Writer Adam Herz and the hot producer-director team of Chris and Paul Weitz occasionally hint that a teenager's most poignant groping is for his elusive identity. But don't expect this summer movie to have the huffing charm of Austin Powers or the tuneful brass of South Park. In its mix of caca...
Slobodan Milosevic is the autocratic replica of the daring pugilist Muhammad Ali: just when you think he is retreating, he charges back with nerve-shattering fervor. Though I regret comparing Milosevic with the boxing legend, it is a way of saying the Serbian leader can never be trusted. KUTI SOFUMADE Lagos, Nigeria...