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When I was in my junior year of high school in Chicago, I had a crush on a girl named Betty Conklin. I learned to jitterbug with her. When she invited another boy to a hayride instead of me, I reinvented myself for the first time. I started referring to myself as Hef instead of Hugh. Instead of wearing clothes chosen by my parents, I started wearing yellow cords, saddle shoes and red-flannel shirts that I didn't tuck in. I became more outgoing and created an ideal high school life for myself: I was head of the student...
...handed a life, and if you're lucky enough and smart enough, you become the person you want to be. My life is in direct response to the way that I was raised, which is true for everybody. Much of it is still connected to the boy who dreamed the impossible dreams. If you don't remember who you were, you don't know who you are. And I love the boy who dreamed the dreams. --As told to Barbara Isenberg
...nudged by Woody Allen to "go on, go on, go on"--be bigger, bolder--in the role of the 1930s actor who literally steps off the screen in The Purple Rose of Cairo, and pushed by Jonathan Demme, to go from repressed yuppie to Melanie Griffith's handcuffed boy toy in Something Wild...
Take Point scholar Maya Marcel-Keyes of Chicago, for instance. The 20-year-old daughter of conservative activist and former presidential candidate Alan Keyes, Marcel-Keyes has a girlfriend but has dated two boys; identifies herself as queer (not lesbian), pro-life and "anarchist"; and attends Mass whenever she can spare the time from her menagerie. (When Marcel-Keyes and I spoke recently, she and her girlfriend had a rabbit, a ferret, a cockatiel, two rats and two salamanders.) For their part, several of the young Exodus Christians seemed more stereotypically gay--"I love that Prada bag!" a 16-year...
...from that peak, the CD descends tremulously quickly to “Beep” featuring rapping and production by the Black Eyed Peas’ Will.i.am. And boy does it show...