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John Leguizamo, he of the acid rants about his family relations, is a dad now. Has diaper duty mellowed him into Cosby Jr.? Relax. He faces a comic's worst nightmare--love and happiness--by taking fatherhood as occasion for a hilarious, moving look at his bumpy love-life past, with a little Latino History 101 thrown in. His riot of voices and song is unsparing of parents, ex-lovers and himself. When he met his live-in girlfriend, he tells us, "My therapist said, 'Congratulations, John! You are now emotionally 12 years old!'" Here's hoping he never grows...
...children. And as many as a third may be unmarried fathers living with the mothers of their children. But if the population of single dads that make up those Census statistics is diverse, the trend remains clear. "We're at the tipping point," says James Levine, head of the Fatherhood Project at New York City's Families and Work Institute. "Three decades ago, it was hard to find these guys. Now everybody knows a single father...
...upper lip of William Hague. I admire the Bush-Cheney style, but it doesn't soothe a somewhat pampered public. If the Republican leaders don't adjust a little and add a patina of 1990s sensitivity to 1950s propriety, they may find the voters looking to other models of fatherhood to keep them happy...
...kids are to rebel against authority. In life as in martial arts, knowledge is power. And only the most powerful, like Chow's Mubai, can share it. He hopes to share it with Jen. Teaching this bright, willful girl is as close as he will come to fatherhood--even if the job carries fatal risks...
...least come to the people not as sons, but as fathers. It's an important distinction. Age has little to do with it. Some men remain sons all of their lives. No man should become president until he has crossed the psychological and moral line into the responsibility of fatherhood. The same distinction will apply to mothers and daughters as women become regulars in presidential politics...