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...only the funeral option: live with the North Korea bomb until the Kims die -- or at least until the old man is gone, on the theory that the son can be muscled more easily than the father. It worked that way in Haiti when Baby Doc took control following Papa Doc's death. Perhaps the same could happen with the Kims...
Past jobs include stints as a Papa Gino'sdelivery boy; a produce truck driver, ababysitter, and a Freshman Union worker. Careerambitions are to play with Fat Day for a year ortwo and possible because I'll have a degree fromHarvard. Just got to keep paying the bills." Lovesto drive and therefore wants to get a job drivinga taxi...
...Black Jack" because of his dark good looks, lived recklessly both in the stock market and in his dashing private life. Several of the men whom Jackie later found attractive -- her husband, her father-in-law Joseph Kennedy and, later, Aristotle Onassis -- bore some resemblance to her glamorous papa. Her mother Janet was steelier, both more conservative and more ambitious. Black Jack was an exuberant but careless investor; the Wall Street crash of 1929 finished his market ride. His marriage began to falter then, and it ended when Jackie was nine. Janet then married into one of the richer branches...
...papa's an alum...
...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...