Word: anka
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Over and over, the comfortable affection at the beginning of an episode is tested and twisted by fate. In Decalogue, Four (Honor Thy Father and Thy Mother), Anka, a pretty young actress who flirtatiously dotes on her father, finds a letter from her mother, who died just after the girl's birth. This man is not her father! The physical closeness the man and girl shared, natural when paternal, is now replayed in Anka's mind as an erotic mating dance. Did he feel that way too? she asks him in a love scene of wondrous and creepy intimacy...
Mourners included Liza Minnelli, Gregory Peck, Kirk Douglas, Eydie Gorme, Mia Farrow, Milton Berle, Connie Stevens, Wayne Newton, Lew Wasserman, Tom Selleck, Paul Anka, Joey Heatherton, Tim Conway, Bob Newhart, Ben Vereen, Ed McMahon, Anthony Quinn, Red Buttons, Marlo Thomas and Angie Dickinson. Pallbearers included Steve Lawrence, Don Rickles and Tom Dreesen, the comic who opened for Sinatra for many years...
...media tide in selecting Newt Gingrich for the coveted title Man of the Year [Dec. 25-Jan. 1]. Your acknowledgment of his solid leadership and concentrated efforts to rebuild America, despite media backlash and potential damage to his political career, is admirable. Congratulations to Gingrich, who deserves the recognition. ANKA J. BULAICH Watsonville, California...
...PAUL ANKA -- The Flamingo...