Word: theo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Enter Dr. Theo, as he likes to call himself. Frustrated by the failure of conventional therapies--ice packs, anti-inflammatory agents and surgery--to relieve his own osteoarthritis, he began looking for alternatives. After only two weeks on the supplements, taken in "synergistic" combination, he felt so much better that he quit anti-inflammatories entirely and started spreading the word among his family and patients. Some pet owners have even begun dosing themselves with pills prescribed for their aging dogs...
Arthritis experts are dubious. "A pure crock," snorts Dr. Gerald Weissmann, head of N.Y.U. Medical Center's rheumatology division. Other doctors point out that it's impossible to separate the effects of the supplements from those of the other steps in Dr. Theo's program. And many are harshly critical of the book's title--noting that there is no known "cure" for osteoarthritis...
...inexplicable connect-disconnect of art and life, the name that probably came to mind for most viewers was Theo Huxtable, the only son, who was played by Malcolm-Jamal Warner in Bill Cosby's tremendously popular 1980s sitcom. For more than a decade the Huxtables were America's first family and Bill Cosby was everyone's dad. It was almost natural, however, to confuse real and imagined identities, for Cosby had modeled his television family on his own: a brilliantly accomplished wife, four assertive daughters and one diffident but charming son. The Huxtables were warm, cuddly, comfortable, now and then...
...press wants children of stars to have problems." He told Family Circle that the media does not "want to see a good, solid, winning family." And by good, solid, winning, he usually had Ennis in mind. The very last episode of The Cosby Show, which aired in 1992, showed Theo Huxtable graduating from college. It was a preview of the graduation of Ennis just weeks later. In fact, before last week's murder, Cosby was pushing to have the character played by Doug E. Doug on his new show go to work at a center for disadvantaged youth, a role...
...dyslexia and to fully master reading. That relegated his father's old joke about him to the dustbin. ("How can you fail English?" "Yeah," he replied.) He became an informal consultant on his father's show, making a couple of rare visits to the studio to talk about dyslexia--Theo Huxtable was also graduating from college after overcoming that disability. In a paper he would write, cited on Larry King Live last Friday, Ennis said, "The happiest day of my life occurred when I found out I was dyslexic. I believe that life is finding solutions, and the worst feeling...