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Order two for only $3890 plus $500 p&h Be sure to indicate quantity desired and total amount enclosed CA and NY residents add appropriate sales tax HatkMMi SywBrarinfs inc Grseral Off 5 llth Ivtmt Huntinftoi Sottoa NT BACKGROUND is very hum- f: hhtwsim ble” Pierce Brosnan said “and kind of mangled and w hen people learn that about me I think they’re surprised because I have this image as a worldly urbane sophisticate That’s B t r— 1144 how my career started here in America with Remington Steele — with my flouncing around in fancy suits and being stuck with ‘The new Cary Grant’ label But I don’t see myself as that I see myself as a much simpler man— as a peasant really” Pierce Brosnan 42 lives in an exhouse pensive rustic stucco-and-sto- Advertisement ‘So FOR YOUNG CHILDREN VIDEO GREAT FOR CHRISTMAS & SPECIAL OCCASIONS ne Boston MA - Independent video producer Fern Galdstone former ballerina with American Ballet Theatre proves videos can be original constructive and entertaining A dance instructor for the past 26 years Fern has developed a creative program for children ages 6 cowhich helps develop ordination listening and vocal skills" high above the Pacific ocean in the Malibu hills It is the house that he bought with his late wife Cassandra Harris and where he watched her die of ovarian cancer after 14 years of mar--' riage Recently I visited him there just before he set out on a publicity tour for Goldeneye the new James Bond movie in which he stars as Agent 007 I went to discover what had taken Pierce Brosnan from rural Ireland to Hollywood how he overcame the loss of the person he most loved and what sustains him now what has brought him back this far “Maybe my time is about to come” 2-- "If your child wants to dance Be a Ballerina is for ' them" Connie Figgins President of Tapeworm of Valencia CA said “Fern did a wonderful job with this It’s Meet Catie an adorable five year fun to watch it’s entertaining and it’s going old girl who dreams of being a balto make every mother want her daughter to lerina Watch as her dream becomes a Ballerina” be a reality Enjoy following along with Catie and her classmates Christine Hurley of Randolph MA wrote through warm up exercise dance "My 3 year old lives sleeps and breathes steps and sing alongs Experience Be la Ballerina She has grown so much the fun as it comes together in their Thank-yo- u I’m sure I speak Fern creatively recital! all for have this wonto lucky enough parents To Order: CALL TOLL FREE in derful their home" tape or send Additional tapes only $995 $1595 plus $395 for S&H to: Three day delivery $300 additional charge Video Distributors Inc out Good Prod 4850 A1 A So St Augustine FL 32084 MCVISA Tu-T- u he told me “Hopefully the film will be a big success and I’ll be a success along with it I do know there is an audience out there for us But the bottom line is: Will Brosnan deliver?” Pierce Brosnan was bom in Navan Ireland Before his first birthday his father walked out Three years later his mother moved to England to study nursing leaving her only child behind He was taken in by his grandparents and after they died he moved in with other relatives or stayed with friends “As a boy I had a family that was broken up” he told me “I felt the lack of a father I yearned for a family I had such dreams and aspirations I suppose I have anger that my father just ditched me and ran out the back door He was a carpenter — and a good whistler I guess I think my mother was very brave in gambling that in leaving me she could go and create a better life In doing that there was a certain amount of abandonment and anger You know ‘How could you leave me?’ “My life in Ireland was very solitary and there was a lot of loneliness I felt an outsider I felt different Maybe I came to use that feeling as a way to protect myself” It was not until 1964 when Brosnan was 1 1 years old that his mother after remarrying finally sent for him to rejoin her in London He went to live with her and his stepfather a Scottish mechanic After four years in school where he excelled in art and English DOTSON RADER BY 30 day money back guarantee email to: ballerinacyberTourscom PAGE X X 30 NOVEMBER 5 1995 PARADE MAGAZINE |