Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...trajectory of Luce's career was especially dramatic given the modesty of her origins. Her mother was a former chorus girl, her father a violinist who . deserted his family when his daughter was nine. Before long, however, Clare Boothe was decorating her resume. In 1913 she was Mary Pickford's understudy in a play titled A Good Little Devil; by eleven she had written a play of her own; and at 16 she had run away from home to work in a factory making paper favors. When her mother remarried, she began to enjoy her first taste of society...
...between whining to her mother over transcontinental phone wires, Lisa, like Giselle, finally submits to Tony's advances. Tony, whose ego matches Baryshnikov's, tells Lisa, "Try to think of me as just a guy." Lisa stares at him demurely and squeaks, "I'll try." But the encounter means little to Tony, so Lisa, with tears in her eyes, runs off and gets a tattoo. Really...
LaLonde said he feared for his daughter's safety while she was hidden by her mother. He said he was concerned people in the "underground railroad" who kept Nicole from authorities might take some unspecified drastic action if he said anything to anger them, a situation he likened to authorities dealing with hostage-takers in Iran...
...abused their child four times while on parental visits. Both sides in the custody battle say they are looking forward to a trial to bring even more attention to the case in which both expect to be vindicated. LaLonde said he will seek full custody of Nicole with her mother allowed only supervised visitation until he can be sure she will not flee with the child again...
LaLonde said he has a videotape of a 7-hour visit of Nicole at his house on Jan. 1, 1986, when his fiance, her two daughters and his mother were present. He said it was following that visit that Mrs. LaLonde, who he refers to as "Ginger," took their child to a Beverly pediatrician for a gynecological exam...