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Fung started writing the column this year after replacing former nutrition consultant Shirley Hung, who wrote it for four years...
...young women. "Large men of large appetites" is one of the euphemisms that have been used when broaching the subject of their legendary womanizing. Jordan's reputation as a ladies' man dates back to the 1970s, when the civil rights leader was traveling constantly and his first wife Shirley, who died in 1985, was restricted to a wheelchair by multiple sclerosis. Jordan, who remarried in 1986, does not discuss his reputation except in the most oblique terms: "I like people. I've always liked people. I like all kinds of people. And I'm not going to stop liking people...
...least one lesson was still to be learned. When an Air Force officer briefed Shirley Dostal on the crash, she asked why her son hadn't had a parachute. The officer explained that parachutes would be of little use in the T-3 because the plane lacked ejection seats. Five months after Mark died, another T-3 went into a spin, and the crew couldn't recover. It was a lot like Dostal's crash, except for one thing. It was a British T-3 flying over the English Midlands, and both pilots were wearing parachutes. They bailed...
...when their T-3 corkscrewed into the ground about 50 miles east of the academy. Dostal, of Moraga, Calif., was a junior at the academy, where he had racked up scholastic and athletic honors. "Mark wanted to fly from the time he was a little boy," says his mother Shirley. "He thought his best chance to fly was to go to the academy." He had spent 11 hours learning...
...audience's attention and sympathy. Other films would use Simon as a wheel in the plot, but As Good As It Gets is sensible enough to create complete portraits of all its major characters. Cuba Gooding Jr. is amusing in a smaller role as Simon's art dealer, and Shirley Knight gives an understated performance as Carol's mother, who wants nothing more than to see her happy. She offers the sage piece of advice that "a normal boyfriend" simply doesn't exist...