The
Dreaded Tantrum
ply demanding and unreasonable,
very now and then I turn on the
and
for those occasions I employ
radio or IV and hear an inter-
what I call the drone.
view with an actor. Nine times
"I am NOT going to turn the TV
1 out of 10, I want to scream.
off!" Yitz will call.
Now don't get me wrong, I love
"Yes, you are." I say.
movies and the theater. But my skin
"No, I am NOT!"
just crawls whenever I hear
"Yes, you are." I say this
thespians talk about 'how
hard it is to be a celebrity."
over and over — I'd do it
1,000 times if necessary.
"You can't go on a walk
There's no variation on a
1 without being harassed! Pho-
theme; it's always in a monot-
tographers are around each
corner! The Notional Enquirer
one and the same set of
words in the same order.
reports on your every move!"
Eventually, Yitz will get so
You know what? If it's'so awful, get
weary of hearing this that he'll give
out of the business.
in, though grudgingly. "Fine, if I have
Actor/actress temper tantrums are
to."
another of my favorites: this or that
Another idea — and my children
celebrity who won't — who can't! —
hate
this, so it's a great anti-tantrum
go on because she was served the
tactic — is to sing about how much I
wrong brand of .mineral water, or
some So-called star who insists on hav- I love them.
While out on a walk, my eldest
ing his photo taken from the right only
daughter wanted to pick grapes in a
because that's his "better side."
neighbor's yard. I told her she could-
Sometimes, my children are like
: n't, so she stormed ahead and called
actors, because they have temper
something along the lines of, "You
tantrums, too.
never let me do anything!"
"I'm never, ever going to talk to you
I guess I could have argued with
again!" my son told me today (for
her, asserted my parental rights and
reasons I can't even remember).
told her to shape up. But instead I
The other day, I saw a mother with
began to sing at the top of my lungs:
her son, about 4-1/2, Yitzhak's age.
"Adina is so beautiful and I love her
The boy was having a temper
so much! She is wonderful, wonder-
1 tantrum. I was troubled by her
ful, wonderful!"
response: "Be quiet or
give you
Adina was mortified, and rightly so,
something to really cry about!" she
because I'm not a very good singer.
yelled. "Keep this up and you're get-
But even as she was rolling her eyes
ting a pahtch."
she couldn't help but smile, and so
I hate seeing parents lose control
.
couldn't
stay angry, and moments
like this, though dealing with a temper
later we were pals again.
tantrum can be pretty awful.
I may not have won some ridiculous
I believe that many children have
battle, but at least everyone came out
tantrums either because they are
unscathed. LI
exhausted or because they need
parental attention — even if it's nega-
tive (like actors, they know bad public-
I Elizabeth Applebaum
ity is better than no publicity at all).
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But there are times when they're sim-
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with roots in — France?
Elizabeth Applebaum
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FYI: Did they ever call him
I "Second-Hand Itzhak"?
while recovering from the accident.
She later married Rivera and had a
1 love affair with Leon Trotsky. She
died in 1954 and was cremated.
Her ashes are in a jar on top of her
1 bed at the Frida Kahlo Museum in
Born in •1945, Israeli-born Itzhak
Perlman decided his future when he
was just 3 years Old. ltzhak was !is-
:
tening to the
• radio when he
Mexico City.
heard someone
1 playing the vio-
FYI: T for Kirk ...
1 lin. Enthralled,
Even if you never watched Star
he asked his
Trek, never saw any of the movies
parents to get
1 and think this whole Star Trek obses-
him an instru-
s sign thing is just too, too weird ;
1 ment. Mr. and
chances are you know the show's
Mrs. Perlman
Itzhak Pearlman
tvvo leading actors, Leonard Nimoy
did just that,
(the always effusive Mr. Spock) and
1 buying young Itzhak his first violin
William "Capt. Kirk" Shatner (the
from a second-hand store.
man whom every female on every
1 When he was 4, ltzhak contracted
single planet in the universe inex- -
polio, but he never quit playing the
plicably could not resist) are Jewish,
violin. He was still a little boy when
right? But do you know what the
1 he received a scholarship to study
"T" in James T. Kirk stood for
at the Tel Aviv Academy of Music,
Tiberius. Next question. Do you
1 and when he was 10 he appeared
know v'here Tiberias is in Israel?
1 in his first solo recital. Perlman later
(Yes, you'll have to look it up. FYI
studied at Julliard (to which he also
can't tell you everything!)
received a scholarship), then made
1 his debut at Carnegie Hall when he
FYI: All - American?
was . 18 years old.
i
FYI: Her final resting place
•• •
I She's Madonna's favorite artist and
the longtime love of Diego Rivera.
Born in 1907, Frida Kahlo began
1 painting after she was crippled in a
bus accident when she was 18.
The incident also left her unable to
bear children — a loss she felt
throughout her life. Kahlo, a native
of Mexico, taught herself to paint
San Francisco tailor Levi Strauss
was famous for creating the jeans
that were first used by gold miners
and have since become as Ameri-
can as apple pie. But did you
know that Strauss' pants were made
out of fabric from France? Original-
ly, Strauss did indeed craft jeans
from a canvas made in the USA.
But it was too rough, so he import-
: ed a product called serge de
1 Nimes from France. In English, it's .
called denim. ❑