Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish they had sentenced him to death," said Irene Mosier, Kellie's mother. But Hagan was spared the death penalty: California does not allow * capital punishment unless a first-degree murder involves other circumstances as well. Hagan seemed unconcerned about his sentence. "One day I'll be back on the streets," he said, "and I'm gonna be hard, hard, hard -- one mean son of a bitch ready for action...
...Vegas to the taping of his TV series in New York to a benefit for black college students in Los Angeles. "Sure, sometimes I think I'm stretched thin," Cosby muses, pausing to pinch off the end of his Connoisseur Geant. "But I remember how my mother worked twelve- hour days cleaning other people's houses before coming home to take care of her own house and kids," and "all the things I did in college: running track, playing football, bartending, doing stand-up comedy" -- and still making the dean's list. By comparison, he concludes, "this is easy...
...comic material, flows from his tough and tender upbringing in a north Philadelphia housing project. His family endured poverty and prejudice but did not surrender to illiteracy. The Cosby home echoed with the sounds of people making up funny stories and listening to others on the radio. Bill's mother Anna would tuck him and his three brothers into their pajamas, the kind with booties sewn in and flaps in the back, and read aloud from Twain and Swift, the brothers Grimm and the Bible...
Cosby's conversation is peppered with improvised comedic bits, and his anecdotes are dramatized with hilarious faces and voices. On the phone to the Los Angeles surgeon who is treating his 74-year-old mother, Cosby deadpans that "while you've got her in there, we'd like you to fix as many things as you possibly can, so maybe we can get her a boyfriend." He loves practical jokes. Sheldon Leonard, the producer who gave Cosby his first TV role on I Spy, chuckles at the memory of his arrival last year at the chic Grand Hotel...
Camera on an hysterical mother blowing her nose in a hankerchief, revealing her sorrow to good Americans everywhere...