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Over the hill at eleven. When TV's Dennis the Menace went off the air in 1963, Terrible Tyke Jay North found the going a bit like his dog-Ruff. After some guest spots, a handful of movies and a short-lived TV series (Maya), his career simply dried up. Ready for something new, North, now 25, signed up for a four-year hitch in the Navy. The Naval Reserve captain assigned to swear him in turned out to be another former child star: Jackie Cooper, 54. Said Cooper: "I think North is making a good choice. Most...
...series stretches from Kinte's African boyhood through his offspring's torturous rise from slavery in America. Unglamorized and at times disturbingly stark, Roots features Cicely Tyson as Kinte's mother, Maya Angelou as his grandmother, John Amos as Kinte in middle age, and Ben Vereen as his grandson. Kinte as a teenager will be portrayed by LeVar Burton, 19, a U.S.C. sophomore and acting novice. To give the somber story line additional star power, such big names as Lorne Greene, Lloyd Bridges, Chuck Connors, O.J. Simpson, Leslie Uggams and Doug McClure will appear in small roles...
...stunning, even shocking anecdotes and a lot of trivia, some of it boring and some of it mildly interesting. The shocking anecdotes are sometimes a little difficult to take without a grain of salt, but most of them are all the more shocking because they're believable. Maya Angelou, the writer and poet, was raped by her mother's boyfriend at the age of seven, an experience which obviously left something of a scar. Liberace says he "thinks he was raped" at the age of 13 by "a big chesty broad who sang blues songs," and Lou Rawls was practically...
...first time and the last time"--she repeats it, her voice rising: "Karl, we were never in the sex business." But even if you concede that point, the question remains: why did these two bright, talented, wholesome people travel around the country asking 28 different celebrities--ranging from Maya Angelou and Erica Jong to Dr. Spock and Mae West--how they lost their virginity...
...wears a magnificent fur coat and chants mantras about "revolution" in order to expunge his sorrow for having flown a German airplane 30 years ago. Burden, on the other hand, would appear a familiar figure to us. He is a body artist. He believes in transcending the entanglements of maya by mortifying his flesh. And though, thanks to drought and earthquakes, this has become routine for most of us at home, in America it is considered to be a great luxury and artists who practice it are esteemed on all sides-so much so that photographs of them sell...