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she'd ever received. Tony has that, too, in safekeeping for posterity within the covers of her bahy hook.
Tony gets so carried away. He often makes his own entries in the white leather-bound documentary and pictorial record of Kelly's development. With a sense of history that only a doting father could be capable of, he made the following inscription:
"Saturday, August 11, 1956, exactly at 5:43 and 40 seconds, Kelly smiled at me and Janet and Jerry and Helen and Manny and Bobby."'
Jerry is our friend, Jerry Gershon. Helen and Manny are Tony's parents, and Bobby is his younger brother.
Tony is such a partisan father that he doesn't even hesitate to tamper with official records. On a certificate of identification marks, there was a blank space next to the designation, "Shape of Head''. Tony wrote, "Beautiful!" Also in the book is Kelly's first Medical Examination Certificate. Where it called for a description of her condition, the doctor had written, "Good". Tony crossed that out and substituted a word he thought more appropriate, "Excellent*.
Kelly just had an operation for the removal of a double hernia. Believe you me, it was a lot harder on poor Tony than it was on Kelly. He was a wreck. Jamie had had the
JANET will never have to worry about Tony not wanting to spend time with the children. There isn't anything he really likes more.
KELLY can twist Tony around her little finger, and Tony loves being twisted. Papa's next movie will be the epic, "Spartacus".
same operation, so Tony had been through it all before. But if you think that made it any easier for him. you just don't know Tony.
Besides, Jamie was not a real person to him yet. She was only 13 days old, and it takes a Daddy a little time to grasp the fact that such a brand new baby actually is a person. It's not like a mother who carries the baby and feels the baby inside. And Kelly, is so much a part of Tony's life. They adore each other. Tony just dissolves when Kelly says, "I love you, Daddy."
He couldn't bear the thought of this happening to her. He would leave the room whenever the doctor was examining her. He would go for a walk. He would get a magazine and not read it. He would sit for a minute, and then pace.
KELLY Avas in the hospital two nights. I slept in the same room with her the first night, and Tony spent the night in the doctors' quarters upstairs. You'll notice I didn't say he slept there. He couldn't sleep. Every ten minutes or so lie would get up, and come down to our room to make sure that everything was all right.
On the second day he went home only long enough to change clothes and to play with Jamie before her bedtime. He spent the night at Harold Mirisch's house. He just couldn't come home with me not there, and Kelly not then'.
When Kelly went in for her operation, Tony tried to talk, but he just couldn't. Pretty soon it was over, and she was all right. Tony acted like the one who had been under an anaesthetic. The shock of relief was so great that he couldn't move. He was just numb. A couple of good night's sleep, though, and he started to be his old self again —
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