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Gene was born Eugene Alden Hackman in San Bernadino, California on the 30th of January, 1930 to Eugene Ezra (newspaper pressman) and Lyda Hackman. He is 6'2" and has been married twice. Once to Faye Maltese (1 January 1956 to 1986), whom he had three children (Christopher, Elizabeth and Leslie) with before they divorced, and currently to Betsy Arakawa. Gene and Betsy were married in December of 1991. Faye was a bank Clerk and Betsy, a classical pianist. When he was 16, Gene joined the Marines for three years and then found himself in New York, working various jobs. Eventually,...

Freeper extrordinaire, LITTLE BILL, long of the Massachusetts family of Freepers and newly a New Hampshire Freeper, has fallen off a ladder while painting and broke his hip socket. He has 5 small fractures and was placed on morphine, which replaced the daily alchoholic intake that kept Little Bill on the straight and narrow. Thankfully to this opium derivitive, Little Bill is resting comfortably and harassing all liberal nurses who come to call, and flattering all the Conservative ones with such catch phrases as: "Hey, Baby, wanna come over and listen to my Ronald Reagan Speeches tonight? Hmmm?" Sadly, yet...