We took tap-dancing lessons together, from a woman who looked about as old as Hollywood itself.

No one ever said, 'You're a boy and you can't take tap-dancing lessons.'

For example, the character takes tap-dancing lessons.

Caryl Vejar rarely watched her husband's fights - "I would get too nervous," she said - but got him into tap-dancing lessons last year.

The contemporary scenes plunk us in the middle of family life with the clamor of children, tap-dancing lessons and birthday parties.

And for five years he took tap-dancing lessons every Tuesday night - even performing once at a recital in a tuxedo.

Maranda is now a healthy 12-year-old who takes tap-dancing lessons.

It would be five years until my family had a car, and by then I no longer was interested in tap-dancing lessons.

But you know how many people say to me, 'I used to take tap-dancing lessons when I was a kid'?

She gave piano lessons and drawing lessons and tap-dancing lessons.