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Perhaps--unless that historian is Ed Ball. His clan stretches back to Englishman Elias ("Red Cap") Ball, who came to Carolina in 1698 for his inheritance of 740 acres and 25 slaves. His descendants would ultimately rule 25 plantations and 4,000 slaves. As a child, Ed Ball heard tales of war heroes and beautiful plantations; slaves were rarely mentioned. Ball's father once quipped about matters not to be discussed: "Religion, sex, death, money--and the Negroes." When slavery did come up, two assertions were made as God's truth: We were good to our Negroes. There...
...your typical coming-of-age story, this tale of the making of a '70s porn star (played by the artist formerly known as Marky Mark, no less) evolves into a touching, refreshingly quirky family drama, as the "star" finds himself part of a veritable clan headed by Burt Reynolds' would-be-visionary filmmaker. Director Paul Anderson displays a remarkable eye and ear for the fluffy vacuousness and conspicuously awful taste of the disco era, while paying cinematic homage to the period's greatest directors...
...football legends is the perquisite of rich guys like Ford, who can afford to play with toys such as the Lions, where he is vice chairman of the family-owned franchise. But Bill Jr.'s sporting days may be coming to an end. The Fords are, after all, a clan of industrialists. And company insiders have told TIME that the board of directors will soon name Bill Jr. to succeed Alex Trotman as chairman at the end of 1999, when Trotman retires. Although naming a Ford to head the company sounds like a nonevent--the family still controls...
...your typical coming-of-age story, this tale of the making of a '70s porn star (played by the artist formerly known as Marky Mark, no less) evolves into a touching, refreshingly quirky family drama, as the "star" finds himself part of a veritable clan headed by Burt Reynolds' would-be visionary filmmaker. Director Paul Anderson displays a remarkable eye and ear for the fluffy vacuousness and conspicuously awful taste of the disco era, while paying cinematic homage to the period's greatest directors...
...short-listed for the Whitbread Prize, and a collection of his journalism was an Irish bestseller for three months. His published work encompasses everything from biography to travel writing. Red Roses and Petrol, his first play, centers on the death of Enda (Brian Scally), patriarch of a small clan, which reunites his scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined in mourning by eldest daughter Catherine (Irene Daly), who files in from New York toting Tom (Ciaran Crawford), her fiance. Even...