The taxi ride from the stylish hotel where Joe Frazier lives to the stripped-down, shuttered gym where his name is carved into its stone façade is a tale of two

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Susan L. Taylor. To many, her name and face are synonymous with Essence Magazine, the African-American women’s magazine where as a single mother she started as a freelance beauty editor

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When you have shared the acting screen with Bette Davis and Marlon Brando (“One of the few people I have ever met who didn’t give a damn what anyone thought”),

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Pierce Brosnan – Why is This Man Average? When it comes to grandparents in the media, it’s hard to shake the image of Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies, or Grandpa

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Ronnie Milsap talks with Mary Ann Cooper about his passion for his music and his family Country And R&B legend Ronnie Milsap was born blind and into extreme poverty in

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Novelist Nora Roberts celebrates another kind of love: for family, for community and for grandchildren. Like some preternatural beast clawing its way from the womb, [the fire] burst to life

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Puff, the Magic dragon, bent his head in sorrow, lost his green scales and slipped off into his cave after Jackie Paper “came no more,” but that’s only the song.

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Embracing life with enthusiasm is the real secret to that glow from within. There’s a popular bumper sticker being seen in many trendy neighborhoods that reads, “Don’t I Look Too

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Mega talented Rita Moreno tells Mary Ann Cooper, “I keep thinking I can’t possibly love any more than I do now, and I do.” Little Rosita Dolores Alverio, who would

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Martin Sheen – Keeping The Faith BY MARY ANN COOPER Ramón Estévez was baptized moments after having his left shoulder crushed by forceps during his delivery. He was supposed to

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Passing along a heritage of music Growing up, Arlo Guthrie had his future mapped out. He looked forward to living his life as a forest ranger, sitting up in a

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Small gold nuggets and a tiny golden ring were given to my baby Anna for her first birthday. We are not of royalty. Instead, we are a unique family of

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Carole Carson was nearing her 60th birthday, stepped on her bathroom scale and realized it had broken. What happened next catapulted her from self-loathing to a healthy new life as

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When the readers of GRAND Magazine voted General Colin L. Powell, USA (Ret.), one of the sexiest celebrity grandparents in America, we had no idea that this distinction would make

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They say that a hero is a man every woman wants-and every man wants to be. If that’s true, then Harrison Ford’s career has followed a hero’s path for the

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It was classical music that shaped the musicianship of the young Neil Sedaka. At the age of 8, he had already begun his intensive classical piano training at the prestigious

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A gentle wind out of the west blows low across a high desert landscape of rabbit brush, yucca and rolling tumbleweed in a far corner of the Hopi Reservation, located

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BY MARY ANN COOPER When Donny Osmond sang his first song on the Andy Williams Show at the tender age of five, he began a roller coaster ride that took

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Singer, songwriter, author, actor, public advocate and television personality Naomi Judd says she has a passion for communication, which was first publicly on display as one half of country music’s

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Mom to Gwyneth and grandmother to Apple, Emmy Award-winner Blythe Danner at 62 is finding more fame than she ever sought. Blythe Danner, at 62, just set the new record

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