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And they do: She has not had a of school at 15 for my wild ways. I from her early years as a refugee. in. "When I first joined the band, it
book out of print in 13 years and her couldn't wait to get to Hollywood." "We used to live in two strips of apart- was because I loved music, not be-
13 titles have sold more than 120 mil- ments that faced each other. They cause I wanted to perform. I was very
lion copies. Her latest, Lady Boss, hit he story of how pop singing nicknamed it the barracks because the shy. But little by little, I became the
the best-seller list the day it was pub- sensation Gloria Estefan husbands of all the women there were lead singer."
lished last October. Jackie Collins' came to the United States is political prisoners. Sure we missed Gloria and Emilio fell in love and
Lucky Chances, the recent NBC-TV a fairy tale that began with our dads, but it was a very warm got married in 1978. They are the
miniseries she co-executive produced, real hardship and struggle. environment." proud parents of a 10-year-old son,
was based on two of her novels. Much Gloria was only 2 years old in 1959 Her family had found a home, but Nayib. "Emilio is the one person in
of the fun of her books is in figuring when her parents fled to Miami from America did not exactly welcome this world responsible for helping me
out who's who in real life among the Cuba. Her father set up the family in them with open arms at first. "I do I find out who I am," Gloria says. "I
characters carry- remember, viv- a love him very
ing on behind idly,my mom get- much.
board room and g ting real upset g Emilio not
bedroom doors. with signs all over ionly became w
Jackie attri- gthe place that said iGloria's husband,
butes most of her No Children, No rEbut also her man-
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States, where she_ "` Despite the which changed its
finally settled prejudice Gloria name to the Mi-
eight years ago (; 1, 0 R I A ESTE FAN says that there ami Sound Ma-
with her two was no place chine. Gloria
daughters and
'The more I travel in America, other than Amer- wrote many of the 'I am
Oscar Lerman, the more I love it: ica where a mi- group's hits, such C
her husband of 22 gration of people as "Bad Boy,"
years. E could have done "Rhythm Is
Jackie's story so well. Gloria's Gonna Getcha"
is not unlike one you might find in her a Cuban ghetto behind the Orange own rise to pop music superstardom is and "Words Get In The Way."
novels. After two years in Hollywood Bowl before joining hundreds of other a case in point. "Dr. Beat" was the band's big
with her sister, she returned to Eng- exiles in the failed 1961 Bay of Pigs "I always sang, ever since I was a break in 1984, and a year later
land. Oscar, a nightclub impresario, invasion. He was captured and im- little girl," Gloria says. "I started "Conga" sold two million copies.
saw her photograph in a magazine a prisoned for two years. playing guitar when I was 9 years With 1987's Let It Loose and last year's
few years later and flew to England to "Living in this country is very ex- old." In high school in 1975, Gloria Cuts Both Ways selling in the millions,
find and marry her. citing for me because I know the other Fajardo and some other musicians try- Gloria and the Miami Sound Ma-
"America is the most energetic, side very well," she says. "Even ing to form a band sought advice from chine continued to gain momentum.
innovative country in the world," she though I didn't experience it first- the leader of a group called the Miami Last March 20 it looked like
says with a smile, "You have this feel- hand, I have a lot of family members Latin Boys. His name was Emilio Gloria's Cinderella story had come
ing that you can achieve anything who did." Estefan. Emilio was impressed by crashing to an end when her tour bus
here. I think I am a prime example of The lead singer of the Miami Gloria, and when his band was asked was rear-ended. Her back was bro-
that. . .a little English kid, thrown out Sound Machine has come a long way to play at a wedding he asked her to sit ken, but not her spirit. After eight
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roll, and all of a sudden the orchestra "It was a hard, painful decision," summons from the Politburo. "I was
stood up! I thought, What did I do he says of his March 1981 request for told I had made a tremendous min \--El
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now? I had no idea that the anthem political asylum. "I always had tre- take—politically an unforgivable mis-
was supposed to be played while mendous satisfaction in my earlier take,"Bela recalls, "and that I should
standing." work [which brought him worldwide be happy they just warned me and
The 55-year-old musician, who fame when his 13-year-old student didn't take any other action." Like thousands the Ho
moved here in 1955 in search of op- Nadia Comaneci won a gold medal at After Bela defected he was faced m of football fans standi
portunity, laughs as he recounts this the 1976 Olympics], but there was with the question of how to make a in the Washing- services
experience. Today he is practically an always that shadow behind me. I felt living. For several months he worked ton, D.C., area, by no c
American institution. He is the musi- the forceful obligation to do things not as a stevedore in Los Angeles harbor Bruce Lindsay The
cal director of California's Glendale in concordance with my views on by day, and cleaned restaurants by !spends the season going formed
Symphony and night. One recol- `0 hog-wild over the Redskins. Mike "
the recipient of W lection from that What distinguishes him is a fan wl
four Grammy time amuses him: that he dresses for
awards and six § "To try to get out the part. CAP
Oscar nomina- of paying me,one Bruce, you see,
tions. He has club owner al- belongs to the Bruce Li
written more thanways screamed Hogettes, that
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plastic snouts.
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"We attract a lot of
people. They come
down from their
seats just to say hi
or to ask for an au-
tograph. And ev-
f&
erybody loves to be
IIIIIIIIIrS seen with us. It's a
blast, and the best ,
part is that it's all
100 scores for tel- • for charity.
evision and film, that I wasn't'do- "We do tele-
including Mission ing a good job. thons, TV and ra-
Impossible and �'. He would scream dio spots, and ►'
Cool Hand Luke. son of a b**** at about 100 personal
I His composition` me. I had no idea appearances a �,
are played world was R L L A K A R O L Y t aoliticall
what it meant, so year. We request
wide. 'Itold I hadmademy wife and I that all monies be
Lalo and hispolitically looked it up in a sent to one of 17
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wife, Donna, unforgivable mistake: dictionary. `Son,' specific charities."
have been mar- well,okay, 'son of Beneficiaries in-
ried for 20 years H someone . ' dude Children's
and have three `B****,' okay, Hospital of Wash-
children. "I am very thankful for all sports, life and my profession." `female dog.' So I thought, Not so ington,the Muscu-
this amazing country has offered Bela's anger with the way the East- bad, he's calling me a puppy. lar Dystrophy As-
me," he says. ern Bloc had used athletics as propa- "Later on in Oklahoma, teaching sociation, Ronald Mc- ymous
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ganda since the late 1940s erupted at gymnastics to kids, I was trying to tell Donald House and NFL linemer
omanian gymnastics the 1980 Olympics in Moscow. He the little kids how good they were and Charities. deserve
coach Bela Karolyi is the protested the "politically motivated I would shout, `Good, good, you son According to Virginia of their
proud head of Houston's and manipulated" award of the gold of a b**"!' Finally another coach Delegate Richard Fisher "Th
Karolyi Gymnastics, one medal in all-around gymnastics to a explained it. I thought I was calling (R-35th District), "In less the sari
of the largest schools in the country Soviet. His action stopped the corn- them puppies. Holy cow!" than 10 years, the Hogcttes team or
dedicated to the sport. When he and petition for 40 minutes. What Bela loves about America is have become almost as Bruce.
his wife of 28 years, Martha, decided He and his team returned to Bu- "the possibility to build a new life to much an institution in pay for
to come here,however, it was because charest, with Nadia bringing home a your desire, and to tailor your ac- Washington, D.C., as arc tion an
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of a more basic desire for freedom. silver medal. Reality arrived via a tivities to your personality." El the Redskins. What's more out of
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