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...proves incapable of helping her 18-year-old son, who has attempted suicide. After the movie was released last month, Actress Mary Tyler Moore, 42, acknowledged that she prepared for the part by drawing on her experiences in raising her own son from her first marriage, Richard Carlton Meeker Jr., 24. Said she: "I was kind of a perfectionist mother, and I demanded a lot of him. I think I was responsible for a lot of alienation. I brought some of that to the part." Indeed, only in the last few years did Meeker, who worked as a bit-part...
...groaning under the problem of providing services for the additional people who come in with new industry. Just recently, Colorado's Governor Richard D. Lamm complained that the energy boom was bringing some of his small towns more prosperity than they could afford. Wrote Lamm: "Craig, Rifle, Meeker-towns that have existed on a stable agricultural base for 100 years-are doubling every two years, every three years. With that growth comes every social pathology; when Rifle doubles in size, juvenile delinquency increases three times; the alcoholism rate increases four times; displaced homemakers increase 4.5 times. The immediate costs...
...turning them into furniture. The old fascist bastard Adolphe Menjou has an answer to that. He said that the only director who worked actors as sensitively as Kubrick was the director of his 1923 film. A Woman of Paris, Charles Chaplin. Kirk Douglas gives a good performance, and Ralph Meeker, waiting for the firing squad, squashes a cockroach with his thumb after his comrade sees it and begins to wait, "That cockroach is going to live longer than I am!" "Now," Meeker says, after performing his own little execution, "you've got the edge...
...David B. Meeker, chairman of the manufacturers' association, said yesterday that he was sure all the corporations present had equal opportunity programs because equal opportunity is the "law of the land." He said, under student questioning, that there are many problems with such a program...
...Meeker added, "Industry and business are recast in an adversary role with the consumer" because of campaigns by media and consumer groups...