Word: aunts
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...belief of Culkin, 10, in the script's improbabilities is what makes them believable to the audience. A Manhattan native, he has been acting since he was four and has been around actors -- his own family -- all his life. His father Christopher has appeared in off-Broadway plays; his aunt is Bonnie Bedelia, who played Harrison Ford's wife in Presumed Innocent; and three of his five siblings are actors (the other two are too young). Culkin's biggest previous role was as John Candy's nephew in 1989's Uncle Buck...
...long before her death in 1960, John's daughter, actress Diana Barrymore, raged, "Damn Daddy for the crazy, mixed-up life he led and the daughter he never gave a damn for, and damn Uncle Lionel for treating me like the boarding-school bitch I am, and ( damn Aunt Ethel who doesn't even know I'm alive, and damn me for being a silly, arrogant, affected schoolgirl! God damn us all! We deserve everything we get!" More recently, Diana's niece Drew Barrymore, star of E.T., went into therapy after admitting that she had used marijuana from...
...Washington; she will not, for instance, know the name of the social worker or judge who oversees her child's case. Begi Ahmetovic, 30, who is serving 4 to 12 years for shooting her husband, left her two sons, now 10 and 12, in the care of their paternal aunt. "She doesn't let my kids come to see me," Ahmetovic laments, and she wonders whether they see the frequent letters she writes. - Ahmetovic saves copies to show them someday "that I didn't forget them, and that I love them." The aunt says she is trying to protect...
...acres and through the barn out back, then lounged under an old hackberry tree. At noon dinner he loaded up his plate with fried chicken and mashed potatoes and took a seat with a cousin on the back porch. Wes cleaned his plate. His cousin did not. Aunt Ida came inspecting. She spied the wasted food, stopped and delivered a stern dose of family doctrine: "Waste not, want not." Right then another remarkable career may have been started through the mixture of Eisenhower family values and the ethic of that prairie society. Jackson, now one of the nation's most...
...warm day in 1941 or 1942, and Wes Jackson, who was 5 or 6, climbed into the family's Lafayette sedan with assorted cousins. They drove from their farm near Topeka over to Abilene, Kans., for a family reunion at his great- aunt Ida Eisenhower's white frame house on Fourth Street, south of the tracks. Her son Dwight was either in Washington or Europe, even then on the edge of his great fame...