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Re "Who Takes Care of Mom?" [Feb. 1]: Francine Russo should not beat herself up for not being around more when her mother's health was failing. Most of us do not have the Cleavers or the Bradys for relatives. "Family craziness" is a major reason people move away in...
The downsizing of fictional TV families left a gap that cable has happily filled. But where the Bradys et al. stressed the families' normality, the TLC shows are all about extreme parenting. Things as simple as family movie night, a dentist visit and a beach trip become quasi-military operations...
White America has shown an abundant willingness to support no-demands blacks like Tiger Woods, Oprah Winfrey, Colin Powell and Will Smith, but a race man like Malcolm X would be another story. It was no accident that Bill Clinton tried to pigeonhole Obama in the primaries as another Jesse...
In the trunkful of classic pop - Rodgers and Hart's"Manhattan," Dietz and Schwartz' "Dancing in the Dark," Cole Porter's "Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye" - I found a few surprises: the 1952 "Guess Who I Saw Today," a quietly devastating ballad of Cheever-like yearning and betrayal, and...
That was pre-TV, of course. The home medium soon functioned as a baby-sitter and an incubator for precocious talent: Billy Gray of Father Knows Best, Ronny Howard (later Oscar-winning director Ron) on The Andy Griffith Show and the endless cattle, or calf, call of Bradys, Huxtables and...