“You can’t just go out there and know that you’re fast, your car is fast, and your car is reliable. There’s a lot of thinking going on," said pro driver Shea Holbrook.
Immigrant parents "are driven by the expectations of their own parents and the fact that their parents have worked so hard to give them good lives,” says Victoria Xiao, 16.
TV is often criticized as having too much sex, violence and bad
language in its programming. Christy, based on the best-selling
novel by Catherine Marshall, has none of the above, yet it still
commands a loyal following. It is so well-...
Growing up in a small town with nothing to do, WISH-TV (Channel 8)
news anchor Debby Knox turned to the media to learn what was
happening in the outside world. Today, her job is to inform others of current events. Recently, she...
Imagine a 12-year-old boy growing up in a poor industrial town in
post-World War II England. Living in a destitute household, the
family brings in barely enough money to survive. His only means of
escape from this dreary existence are...
In real life, Marina Sirtis has a lot of people who come to her
with their problems, much like her character, Deanna Troi, does on
Star Trek: The Next Generation. Interestingly enough, she did not originally audition for the
part of the...
The summer that Gates McFadden's mother dragged her from the lake
to a small, makeshift theater to see Shakespearean plays changed
the actress's life. "In the beginning, my brother and I both groaned. . . . But
what happened was pretty...
Jonathan Frakes thinks he got the part because he fits the physical
type that the producers had in mind: "I was tall and looked like a
soldier." Frakes said that serving on the USS Enterprise is like serving
on a military ship. "The...
On Star Trek: The Next Generation, LeVar Burton's character, Geordi
LaForge, is blind and must wear a visor to see. But in real life,
while he is wearing the visor, Burton has only 20 percent of his
normal vision. "When (Geordi) wears...