Word: theo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What happened in Boulder on Christmas night was, among other things, proof that tragedy honors no boundaries. Of course we knew that, but one continues to hope. I read in a magazine once that Patricia Neal and Roald Dahl decided to leave Manhattan after their son Theo was brain damaged in a car accident; his nanny was pushing him across the street in a carriage when a taxi jumped the light. Deciding Manhattan was not a safe place to raise kids, they moved to a farmhouse 30 miles outside of London. A year later, their daughter Olivia died...
...Theo R. Smith, thirtyish and spirited, is the sort of aspiring actor as easy to come by in Los Angeles as a palm tree or plastic surgeon. His resume, impressively diverse, boasts appearances in everything from The Winter's Tale to Mike and Maddy while also listing his "special skills," among them stage fighting, bartending and body surfing. Like many of his peers, Smith names Martin Scorsese as the director he would most enjoy working with. "I'm a dramatic actor," Smith explains, "but I would never turn down a good comedy role...
...airport because the Pan Am phone lines were busy all day, and the only news we were getting was from TV. By the time I was in the motel it was late at night, and I had learned the truth. My charming, vibrant daughter, my Theo who sang like an angel and had a golden future, was dead at age 20. Had a gun been handy I might very well have shot myself. Instead there was nothing to do but cry and scream and crawl along the floor...
...called grief-therapy expert assigned to me went into his act. According to him, I had good memories to comfort me and could look to the future with hope. He started barking questions at me about Theo. What year in school was she? What were her hobbies? I told him to leave me alone. My grief was the grief of Greek tragedy, his response the verbal junk food of psychobabble. My husband, sunk in his own grief, told the "expert" to leave. He refused. My husband had to threaten to grab him by the neck and throw...
...next day, after I got the news that Theo was dead, I went home and found out that the grief-book industry was rolling strong. Grief books are profitable, I'm told, right up there with How to Make Dieting Easy and Ten Ways to Improve Your Self Image if You've Just Lost Your Job. I was given religious books about souls meeting in heaven, books that told me how best to understand the grief process...