Word: sons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Louisville. Tom missed his dad, but says, "My father was not a guy to go out and hit baseballs to me. It was my mother who took me to my first ball game." In 1984 Cruise's father died of cancer. He had never seen any of his son's films. Though there was no reconciliation, Tom's father finally acknowledged his domestic mistakes. An edge of anger creeps into Cruise's voice: "But he never said...
...Lepine's pocket, police found a three-page suicide note, in which police said he complained that "feminists have always ruined his life." Born to a French-Canadian mother and an Algerian father who left the family when his son was seven, Lepine studied intermittently at junior colleges and expressed the hope that he would be accepted at the university. Though he had no history of criminal behavior or mental illness, he existed on the margins; a loner who enjoyed war movies, he was unable to sustain relationships with women and claimed to have been turned down by the military...
Director Bruce Beresford's tone is cool and shadowy -- like Miss Daisy's fine old house. Hoke is introduced into it by her son Boolie (Dan Aykroyd, displaying full credentials as an actor), when at 72 Miss Daisy careers her car into a neighbor's yard. She has objections, suspicions. She harbors -- yes -- more racial prejudice than she has ever been forced to admit...
Daily Life in the Forbidden City by Wan Yi, Wang Shuqing and Lu Yanzhen (Viking; $75). As the Son of Heaven moved through his palaces, the Hall of Luminous Benevolence, the Gate of Divine Prowess, there was everywhere beauty to behold. The Palace Museum in Beijing has assembled a sumptuous record of this quotidian splendor...
...sharp-witted, courtly man who tends toward diffidence, Havel seems an unlikely folk hero. He was the son of a well-to-do builder and restaurateur, and his early years were filled with governesses and chauffeurs. With the Communist takeover in 1948, the family's wealth became an albatross. Havel was denied the opportunity to attend high school or college. While working as a taxi driver and then in a brewery, he pursued his writing and in 1963 saw his first play, The Garden Party, mounted in Prague. In April 1968 Havel traveled to New York to see the Public...