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Strange words for a middle-aged father of two grown children, Sally, 23, and Ben, 24. But Taylor has been painfully wrenching his way into manhood since 1971, when he sang, "Let the boy become a man" on the album Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon. "I was aware of that back then. It just takes a long time to get here," he explains. "Recovery is part of it. Death is part of it. Love that goes bad is part of it. Failing to be a parent is part of it. You have to fail over and over...
...Bourne's version, the Prince is both bored and lonely, growing into manhood largely confined to the palace and without much direction either from his remote mother or the various courtiers. (Bourne built the character in part on what he has read about Prince Charles' disastrous childhood.) The Swan Lake Prince gives debauchery a try but finds he's no good at it--too gullible, no head for liquor...
...namesake leaped to the stage to collect an Oscar, Cuba Gooding Sr. was in rehearsal for a gig on the Sunset Strip. Lead singer of the '70s group Main Ingredient, Gooding still performs in clubs and theaters. He says that in Harlem, where he was born, "your manhood was proved by your ability to make either the women scream or the men run. I was good at making women scream by singing." After the 1972 Everybody Plays the Fool went gold, Gooding moved his family to California and was a Motown solo artist from 1978 until...
Virgin males should celebrate their status. They should not hide inside a closet. This liberation, as I call it, will make the decision to have sex, when the right time presents itself, an informed and conscious choice, not a result of peer pressure or the misplaced desire to reach manhood...
...forward to the day when they win their gold parachutist's wings. I doubt that many look forward to the "ceremony" that accompanies the wings, but all look back with pride on enduring it. The ritual is not unlike the ceremony that American Indians went through when they entered manhood. GARRETT C. DAILEY Oakland, California...