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...Buchenwald) who pioneered in the treatment of emotionally troubled children. In 18 books (including Love Is Not Enough and The Uses of Enchantment) and dozens of articles and TV appearances, he was an all-knowing guru to millions on topics ranging from the meaning of fairy tales to parent-child relations...
...Every parent dreads the unforeseen disaster, the one you cannot possibly save your children from, the one that will be announced with a phone call or sudden message, one that will change your life forever, "the feeling," Bill Cosby described in 1987, "of your child going out to play, going to the store, going to visit Grandma or Uncle, and not coming back home." On Thursday morning, Joanne Curley-Kerner, line producer for Cosby's cbs sitcom, received disturbing calls from tabloid-TV reporters seeking to verify rumors out of Los Angeles. She tried to confirm them with the l.a.p.d...
...contests raise troubling questions, though, about whether they are ultimately for the benefit of the child--or the parent. Cohen, who has judged hundreds of events, has seen the pushiest of stage parents ruin the event for a child, hollering or even hitting her for not performing well. "A lot of these parents are so serious about it that they take away all the pleasure from the kids," Cohen said. "If the child loses, they feel like they let the parent down." LaCour too has seen it all. "I've seen mothers take young girls right off the stage before...
...show, co-created by Simpsons writer Glen Daniels, came about when Peter Roth, then president of 20th Century Fox Television, approached the animator about coming up with "a Mike Judge equivalent to Homer Simpson," as part of a production deal Judge had signed with the network's parent company. "I went back to my sketchbooks," recalls Judge, who has lived in Austin, Texas, since 1993, "and I found all these bubba types. I wanted to do something about four or five guys who were really into their power tools...
...intervening years Grunwald, now 74, learned English, met Marilyn Monroe and scores of Presidents and Prime Ministers (in roughly that order of importance), became the editor of this magazine and then editor-in-chief of its parent company and thus one of the most powerful people in American journalism. His memoir, One Man's America (Doubleday; 658 pages; $30), is an often eloquent and emotional account of this astonishing passage, filled with the triumphs of a determined and intelligent man successfully navigating the strange waters of an adopted country. He is candid, as well, about his occasional failures...