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ANOTHER B I RT H D AY ! ?
Lee Kapelovitz
Laurie Konheim
Jeff Cutler Mary Katz Norma Zager Brad Pitt FULFILLMENT–The CONNIE MARTINSON 40th annual holiday party of the Fulfillment Fund was held at CBS Television City. Fund Founder Gary Gitnick, Larry Elder, heard on MD, “Santa Claus“ KABC radio, has written nonactor/producer Tom fiction books from the conserSherak, “Mrs. Claus” vative point of view. Cherna Gintick, founder His newest, Dear Father, of Friends of the Fulfillment Fund, and Dear Son: Two Lives, Eight one of the 250 school Hours (WND Books: $25.95) children with disabilities begins with his return to L. A. enjoying the festivities. from Cleveland with the intenPhoto by Vince Bucci tion to finally have it out with
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Joan Mangum Nancy Davis hosted a successful seminar last week at Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in her never ending venture: “The Race to Erase M.S.” Nancy and her mother, Barbara Davis, are acknowledged as two powerhouses when it comes to bringing awareness and raising funds for various causes. We recently attended Barbara’s 26th bi-annual “Carousel of Hope,” probably the world’s premier charity event benefiting childhood diabetes. It lived up to every expectation. Jay Leno did the emcee duties and kept the audience in stitches. The evening, however, belonged to George Clooney, the “sexiest man alive,” who was given the “Brass Ring” award” for his far reaching humanitarian efforts in Darfur and Haiti, and being co-founder of “America: A Tribute to Heroes Charity Television” which raised $200 million for 9/11 families and workers. Shirley McLaine introduced a funny video on Clooney showing his various stages of growing up. R&B/pop icon Kenny “Baby Face” Edmonds, and former Kennedy Center honoree Neil Diamond performed and brought back many musical memories. Fernando Varela and Jessica Sanchez, discoveries of musical director David Foster also entertained. The event held in The Beverly Hilton was produced by George Schlatter with Clive Davis and Quincy Jones serving as musical chairs. Barbara Davis looked gorgeous in a white Oscar de la Renta gown accented with a magnificent multi-strand diamond necklace with earrings to match. And we saw such celebrities as Sir Sidney Poitier, Alan Thicke, Cheryl Burke, Daisy Fuentes, Diego Boneta, Donna Mills, Gayle King, Harry Hamlin, Hill Harper, Holly Robinson-Peete, James Van Praagh, Jennifer Garth, Joan Collins, Joan Van Ark, Julianne Hough, Loretta Devine, Mimi Rogers, Nicky Hilton, Nicollette Sheridan, Sasha Alexander, Stacy Keibler, Thora Birch, Tommy Thayer joined music giants Smokey Robinson and KISS co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley in walking the red carpet. Founded 35 years ago by Marvin and Barbara Davis, in honor of their daughter Dana, who was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 7, “The Carousel of Hope” has raised over $80 million on behalf of the Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes, which regularly serves more than 6,000 children and adult diabetics.
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his father who beat he and his brothers every day of their youth. He was mean, unloving and threatening. He would answer tears in the middle of a beating with “I’ll give you something to cry about”. Despite this horror of a father, Larry’s mother and his high school teachers encouraged him to apply to Ivy League colleges. He was accepted at Brown, later he went to law school in Cleveland, where he met his mother’s sister and her husband, Uncle Thurman, who had known his father before he was married. As Larry told his uncle about his father and Thurman’s friend, it sounded like two different people. It was this that gave Larry the courage to confront his father. The book is divided into three sections: “En Route,” “The Talk,” and “Postscipt.” His father, Randolph, the owner of Elder Snack Bar, closes the restaurant in order to hear Larry out. He does and proceeds to tell Larry that he never wanted to be like the man he called “father” who beat him and kicked him out of the house at age 13 while his mother looked on and said “nothing.” Yet Larry remembered his father mailing money to his mother as a grown up. Randolph worked his way at any job to stay alive. He joined the Marines. After the war he couldn’t get a job other than as a janitor in L. A. because he was a “colored man.” This was all new to Larry. Randolph worked three jobs to keep food on the table. He had no time for friends and Larry’s mother was a woman who had gone to college for a year which in their world meant Randolph had married up and she had married down. Not only is there a reconciliation but mutual tears. The reconciliation carries over to his brothers in the years that followed. It is a beautiful book with a message for family understanding. So fathers put
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS—Celebrating are Norma Zager, John Davidson, Christopher Plummer, and Christopher Prosky (Dec. 14); Tim Conway and Don Johnson (Dec. 15); Barbara Gardner, Steven Bochco, Benjamin Bratt, Terry Sternfeld, Jack Barclay, Lee Kapelovitz, Ben Cross, Fred Cunningham, Frank Deford, Lesley Stahl and Liv Ullman (Dec. 16); Ray Liotta, Keith Richards and Steven Spielberg (Dec. 17); Mary Katz, Katie Holmes, Leonard Maltin, Christina Aguilera, Brad Pitt, and Steven Spielberg (Dec. 18); Jeff Cutler, Alyssa Milano, Jennifer Beals,and Jake Gyllenhaal (Dec. 19); Lionel Furst, Laurie Konheim and Keifer Sutherland (Dec. 20).
ASTROLOGY by Holiday Mathis TODAY’S BIRTHDAY (Dec. 14). Tastes become even more refined as you are exposed to quality experiences in the next 10 weeks. Intellectual pursuits and tests will be featured at the top of the year. The one who stimulates your mind will steal your heart. You take control of your environment in March when moves and changes happen. Aries and Taurus adore you. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). You’re in a generous mood, as usual. As your sign mate Sir Winston Churchill said: “We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). You have gumption and applied it, you know what it is and what it feels like to possess. Many do not know and haven’t experienced such a quality yet and cannot be blamed for the lack. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). The same thin line that’s between love and hate runs between romance and annoyance. Give others the benefit of the doubt as you interpret gestures. PISCES (Feb. 19-Mar. 20). Loyalties are many, but hopefully not so many you don't have time left for yourself. Right now, it is crucial to spend a few hours alone, doing what pleases you. ARIES (Mar. 21-Apr. 19). It will be challenging to strike the right balance between your personal and professional life unless you pick up the pace at work. Getting everything done in time to leave work at a decent time will make for a happy personal life. TAURUS (Apr. 20-May 20). In the morning, it will be difficult to recognize the excellent circumstances you’re in. But once you see where opportunities lie, you’ll feel spoiled for choice. GEMINI (May 21-June 21). There’s a difference between being very direct and being tactless. You’ll deliver a sharp message with a kind touch–a skill you’ll be admired and possibly employed for. CANCER (June 22-July 22). You’ll be successful as you execute a negative imitation–in other words, you’ll do the exact opposite from what someone else does to terrific effect. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). Scientists widely accept the theory that the universe happened, though few have a theory as to why. If you can supply a “why” for the things you cause in your part of the universe, you’ll be ahead of the game. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). You’re generally even tempered, so when you do speak passionately, as you will today in an impressive outburst, people listen and give your sentiments great importance. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). If you can take another person’s pain and feel it instead, you would. But even the greatest love doesn’t allow for this. However, you will help. Life is easier for someone because you’re in it. SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Choose your sacrifices carefully. Being at your healthy best is also what’s best for your people. Caring for yourself is an expression of gratitude to everyone around you. The Artist And His Work your belt buckles away. ($49.95) by Sybille Ebert****** There are no better books Schifferer. Here are the paintfor gifts than those published by ings of John the Baptist, in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Dr. detail. The Flight Into Egypt and Marian Bisanz-Prakken, curator the shocking aspects of his life of Vienna’s Albertina Museum which is covered in depth. Caravaggio is the artist of has penned Gustav Klimt: The Magic Of Line ($49.95) with the hour, currently, showing at some 250 color illustrations. LACMA with a catalogue This is the art of Klimt, the “Caravaggio And His Legacy.” draftsman, who painted the The museum has a few of his golden women of Vienna which original works but mostly there hang in the Albertina and in are those he inspired which do collections in New York. In his not compare with the master. drawings of women Klimt had www.conniemartinson.com aired and streamed at 3 and 11:30 p.m. the eye of a psychiatrist. on www.lacity-view.org channel The there is another mag- 35 and on youtube/user/connificent Getty book Caravaggio: niemartinson’s channel.