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...Willy whales may soon go on tour. Animatronic Willy is set for a promotional jaunt. And real Willy -- Keiko -- will have to find less confining quarters. It is in danger of growing too large for its Mexico City tank. As co-producer Jennie Lew Tugend notes sadly, "It's a 22-ft. whale in a tank that's only 15 ft. deep...
...sounds to me that he [Austin] has somewhat the same syndrome as the guy in 'War Games'. He was challenged with the idea to see how far he could get and he got too far." Tugend told the campus newspaper, the UCLA Daily Bruin...
Many families also cannot handle the physical aspects of aging. The Jury family, of Clarks Summit, Pa., watched helplessly as "Grandpa" Frank Tugend faded. The Jurys kept the retired coal miner with them, bearing with him as he became confused and forgetful, cleaning up after him as he lost control of his bodily functions. In his lucid moments, the proud 81-year-old Tugend knew what was happening to him. One day he took out his false teeth and refused to eat any more. He had decided to die, and no one-not his doctor, not his family-could...
...children have the devoted patience or endurance of Tugend's family. Each year more and more of them face the problem of deciding what to do when aged parents need more care than they can-or are willing to-give. In some cases, the answer is obvious: put them in a nursing home. The decision is often devastating for parents and children alike, and has ripped many families apart. Whatever happens, guilt hangs in the air like a sulfurous, corrosive fog. Even children who keep their parents at home generally feel remorse about what Paul Kirschner of the University...
Typical gag from the Harry Tugend-Dwight Taylor script: a songwriter (Oscar Levant) trying to converse with Cindy Lou's fire-eating aunt (Elizabeth Patterson) in the midst of her relics of the Confederacy: "My mother had a lot of General Grant's things in her home." She: "Bottles, I presume...