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...Hollywood and well beyond, but his heart remained in Omaha. In 1955, along with Daughter Jane Fonda, who was then making her acting debut, he starred in an Omaha production of The Country Girl that raised money for the playhouse's current building. Earlier this month, Papa Fonda, 75, went home again, this time for a film tribute and reunion, and some 500 old friends packed the playhouse. "I have deep roots here," Fonda said, "and I love to come back...
Something at the heart of the whole thing is disgusting. This is not boxing on television. Where the fuck is Hemingway? Where's Papa? There are just these two guys with nothing to lose and nothing to win missing punches in the middle of this silence and this indifference and the noise from the heaters, rumbling, rumbling. I am beginning to be very scared. An enormous sourness fills me. What is wrong with...
Some are born great, some have greatness thrust upon them, and some have fathers like Hiao-tsiun Ma. A musical pedagogue who migrated from China to Paris in the '30s, Papa Ma started teaching Yo-Yo (Yo means friendship in Chinese) at the age of four, with a 1/16-size cello. Yo-Yo had to memorize two new measures for each daily lesson. "I had to play right," Yo-Yo recalls. "If I made a mistake, then I would have to play the passage right three consecutive times...
...Then it was on to Kenya for the Mau Mau uprising and later to a leper colony during the final days of the Belgian Congo. He sampled pornography in Batista's Havana, just before Castro and his forces came down from the hills. He fetched up in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti in 1963 and found himself under Egyptian gunfire in Israel in 1967. It would be hard to think of a contemporary writer who has exposed himself to danger so thoroughly, in so many troubled spots...
...Nancy Mitford: "All my children are here for the holidays-merry, affectionate, madly boring-except Harriet who has such an aversion to me that she screams when she catches sight of me a hundred yards away." But his letters to the youngsters tell the story of a doting papa. He comforted them when they grew unhappy at school, made up outrageous stories to amuse them. He described his eldest daughter's coming-out to his third child Margaret: "There were 250 pimply youths and 250 hideous girls packed so tight together they could not move hand or foot...