Chiefly, He Will Become a Man

--Little Sun Bordeaux, the great-grandson of American Indian Chief Crazy Horse, arrived in Israel on Monday night, but the 13-year-old will leave a man. Little Sun, of Spokane, Wash., wearing a traditional Sioux costume, including a porcupine quill headdress from his Indian father, was accompanied by his Jewish mother, the former Armalona Greenfield, for the bar mitzvah ceremony Thursday at the Western Wall of Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. “He would like to be a rabbi,” the boy’s mother said, showing the religious skullcap that Little Sun will wear at the ceremony when he accepts the obligations of Jewish manhood. “For the moment, he has no functions at all with the tribe. It is only later in life, if he decides to throw in his lot with his people on the reservation, that the Council of Elders would have to choose him for their chief.” Crazy Horse, of the Oglala Sioux, and another Sioux chief, Sitting Bull, defeated George Armstrong Custer and his forces on the banks of the Little Big Horn in Montana in 1876.

--Morris, Cleo and Sara have joined a very special animal kingdom--at the First Family’s Santa Barbara ranch, which already has six horses and five dogs. Nancy Reagan adopted the stray cats after her ranch caretaker found them in a parking lot in Santa Barbara, Elaine Crispen, the First Lady’s press secretary, said. The calico cats were found abandoned about 26 miles southeast of the 688-acre ranch. Crispen said that Mrs. Reagan promptly gave the felines the run of the ranch and arranged for them to be fed and cared for. The cats are an adult male Mrs. Reagan named Morris and two kittens who “seem to be female,” named Cleo and Sara, Crispen said.

--Bill Cosby’s wife, Camille, has purchased the rights to make a movie about the life of South African dissident Winnie Mandela. The announcement caps Cosby’s 18-month effort to secure the rights to Mandela’s story. Cosby will co-produce the movie--either as a feature or as a television movie--and wants to start immediately, working from “Mother of a Nation,” a biography of Mandela by Nancy Harrison. “I am very pleased to be working with Mrs. Cosby to bring my story to the rest of the world,” Mandela said in a statement from her home in South Africa. A spokesman for the Cosbys said: “Mrs. Cosby . . . feels that the life of Winnie Mandela is not only a story of major international significance but the story of a powerful woman. She feels the story of Winnie Mandela is the story of South Africa. She is a woman who never allows moral issues to be reduced to politics.”