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Maybe that's how it is now. When Pete was a tyke, basketball was how the day started and ended. From the time he was seven, he spent hours out in the backyard shooting baskets with his father, and listening to lectures on the niceties of finger control, form, stance, depth perception. By the time he finished Raleigh's Needham Broughton High School, Pete was already averaging 32 points a game and displaying an almost total dedication to the sport. They still talk about the time he hobbled around the floor with a plaster cast on a badly...
...will be a matter of interest to psychoanalytic historians what little Lyndon Johnson said to his mother when she perched him on her knee and told him gravely, "Once you begin to lie, you never know when to stop." In any case, it seems clear that the little tyke took his mother's words as a challenge, not a warning...
...most critical moment in Promise follows Leslie's discovery that her tyke has secretly made his movie debut opposite a Junoesque redhead in a wild bikini. Such rancid twists of plot could easily sour a comedy, except that the kid is a disarming moppet named Michael Bradley who saves his heartiest responses for a pile of red plastic blocks. Warren saves his for Leslie, and most of the fun is as simple as that...
...Adulyadej, 38, a white elephant was born in Thailand, thus assuring the kingdom of doubly good fortune. And so, in the traditional three-hour ceremonies at Chiangmai, King Bhumibol welcomed the albino baby. Buddhist and Brahman priests chanted blessings; the King poured lustral water, presented golden robes to the tyke, and then stuffed its mouth with sugar-cane stalks inscribed with the lucky beast's name, Phisanuphan (meaning "auspicious royal elephant"). That last touch is crucial, since without it, a white elephant soon forgets what he's called...
Irish, d'y'see, is the word for Ginger Coffey, and at a guess most people put him down as a prosperous Irish squire. Most people, more's the pity, are dead wrong. Behind the mighty mustache hides a terrified tyke. Inside the classy tweeds lives a Mick Micawber who can't keep a job, can't feed his family, can't face the comitragic truth about himself. In his careful and intelligent novel, a bestseller in 1960, and now again in the careful and intelligent script he has written for this film, Author...