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...knew better than to insult the family I stayed with by spouting trivialities rooted in popular culture. By treating everyone I spoke to as my equal I was able to learn amazing things about country life. For example, I had no idea fried peat moss is a delicacy to be washed down with a steaming mug of Junior's yellow country elixir prepared in the backyard shed. Really, my hosts were too kind...
Even big, bad Rolling Stones settle down, get married and start their own families, but they are still not your basic moss gatherers. Two weeks after the birth of his daughter, Guitarist Keith Richards, 41, was off for a two- month stay in Paris to cut a new Stones album. Back in New York City, Theodora Dupree should not have any trouble remembering her rock-'n'-roll dad. Explains Model Mom Patti Hansen, 29: "He made us a tape before he left, called My Girl, that has all his own music on it, all his new stuff. It's especially...
Bird and Gretzky are each involved in a long-standing relationship with one woman. Gretzky's sweetheart Vickie Moss is a cabaret singer. Joey, the Oilers' clubhouse boy, is her younger brother. From a momentary marriage to a cheerleader, Bird has a seven-year-old daughter he sees in the summertime. His companion is a Kelly Girl secretary named Dinah Mattingly. Neither man is extravagant, though Gretzky likes to dress. No longer fazed by clothes, Bird plucked his MVP trophy in shirtsleeves from a crowd of tuxedoes. Both are adept at trading in the Ferraris and Trans Ams they...
...first time I stood on the ice beside Marcel Dionne, I was 18. I can remember exactly how excited I was. I've seen that same look in younger eyes." For perspective, he has several devices, but his most effective helper is the small, bespectacled clubhouse boy, Joey Moss, who has Down's syndrome. "I grew up around it," Gretzky says. "My dad's sister is mentally retarded. I love Joey, I love to shake his hand...
Selma (pop. 27,260) has a restful Southern ambience these days, its broad streets and white houses with their screened verandas suggesting the setting of a Carson McCullers novel. (A movie based on her book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was, in fact, filmed there.) Edwin Moss, 69, was an Army combat veteran and one of the few blacks who was registered to vote in the town 20 years ago. Have things changed? "You're looking at one change," said Moss. He was the first black ever appointed as a registrar in Dallas County. Though the totals are distorted...