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Sometimes you forget you're famous. You wonder, Why is that person staring at me?
Bob Newhart
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Bob Newhart
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 5
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Oak Park
Illinois
George Robert Newhart
George Robert Bob Newhart
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Marriage and fatherhood heighten the disillusion that we all think we are born handy. We confidently believe that we can fix things around the house, as if it's part of the collective brain that was further enhanced by eighth-grade shop class.
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In today's world, you would call my father mostly unaccessible. I'm not sure that isn't true of most fathers at that time. He went through the Depression. I don't know what that would have done to my psyche.
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