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...different for every family," says Lt. Col. Durr. "We both have been in Army National Reserves [since] my kids were born," he says of himself and his wife, Heather. "[My kids] are used to mom and dad not being around sometimes." In the aftermath of 9/11, for example, Durr spent four months at Ground Zero in New York City...
...John Roseboro on the head with a bat. He also had the nerve to eject a manager in the World Series: Baltimore's voluble Earl Weaver, in the fourth game of the 1969 series with the New York Mets, the eventual champs. In poetic lockstep, his sons followed in Dad's officiating footsteps--Jerry in baseball and Joey in the NBA. Crawford...
Fashions change, but less so at the fair. Alongside the elephant ears and corn dogs, we now find empanadas and tacos de carnitas. Kids now compete in robotics as well as rabbit husbandry. Grandma's red balloon, which became Dad's Snoopy balloon, is now Junior's SpongeBob balloon. And the carnies now wear uniform shirts (with collars!)--though they're still missing some teeth...
...next few years, LaBeouf bounced from big studio projects like I, Robot and Constantine to indie résumé builders like Bobby and A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints. His parents divorced; he made room for his dad at his place. And he began to draw on his complicated relationship with his parents in his work. In the coming-of-age drama Guide, LaBeouf's character struggles to connect with his emotionally distant father, played by Chazz Palminteri. Before filming a confrontation scene between the characters, LaBeouf called his dad from the Queens, N.Y., set and asked him to sing...
...Paea says gangs are everywhere. "Every street corner has one," he says. "A lot of kids we deal with have no direction, no activities, nothing whatsoever. You've got some who have grown up without a dad-just a mum-and the only role model they've got is the older guys in the neighborhood who are gang connected. They are connected into the wrong environment, and it's the same in school: they connect with the wrong child...