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Third, college student collectively spend a significant amount of money on discretionary items even while they're still undergraduates. Many are well-endowed by mom and dad. And all those CDs, nights on the town, clothing add up to huge potential profits for the companies...
...Frazier's first book, Dating Your Mom (1986), collected a decade's worth of his hilarious short humor pieces, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. Then came Nobody Better, Better Than Nobody (1987), which contained five pieces of New Yorker nonfiction. These displayed Frazier's tenacious reporting skills and whimsical self-consciousness: "I had not been in Texas long before I started having millions of insights about the difference between Texas and the rest of America. I was going to write these insights down, but then I thought -- Nahhh...
...father in 1987 and his mother a year later. While going over his parents' effects and papers he discovered, among the many things they had saved, family letters dating as far back as 1855. Eventually he put nearly everything into two boxes -- the dad museum and the mom museum -- and hauled them back to his Brooklyn apartment. These papers led him to take trips across the country to look at old houses and churches and to interview relatives. The process took years -- Frazier does not say it obsessed him, but his descriptions of his pursuit have that feel about them...
...Marshall High, where he becomes a star player. But until his parents pay St. Joseph what they owe, the school refuses to release Arthur's records, thus threatening him with loss of a full school year. By then his dad has left home, done drugs and jail time; his mom has to hold things together in the dark (literally -- the electricity's been turned off). But she, the film's heroine, does it; then she gets the top grade in a nurse's-assistant course. At her graduation, all we see are tears of joy and rows of empty chairs...
Parents like Mort Sahl. My mom really likes Mort Sahl. At first glance, the number of balding heads and hearing aids in Mort Sahl's audience is daunting. One wonders what kind of night one is in for. But he comes with good recommendations--Morn's got taste, she married Dad, after all. Sahl was host of the Academy Awards, the world's most watched television program. He was our parents' Billy Crystal, Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams. It'll be great to get a cross-generational perspective on humor, right...