Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nimble touch. While Barbara Harris is as saucily mocking as ever, it becomes clearer with each performance that she is more of a zany caricaturist and mimic than she is an actress. She can do instant impersonations of people and moods, but except for her 1962 performance in Oh Dad, Poor Dad, she has never developed a character. In the past, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick have written beautifully articulated scores for Fiorello! and Fiddler on the Roof. In The Apple Tree, the score, like the show, lacks everything, including earplugs...
...Color by Deluxe, some charmingly scummy urbs and suburbs, a hilarious "sitdown orgy for 40," and a bunch of top bananas: Phil Silvers cast as a pious pimp who combines worship and whoreship, Jack Gilford playing a collector of "erotic pottery," the late Buster Keaton doing a deadpan dad with a somewhat unusual problem: "My daughter is a eunuch...
Years later, however, his guilt or innocence was to be raised again?both by political opponents and his own son. "Little boys have amazing minds," Marcos said recently. "Just the other day our nine year old, Bongbong, came to me and said: 'Hey, Dad, what's this about you having murdered a man once?' And I said: 'Well, if that had been so, I wouldn't be standing here with you now, would I?' Bongbong said: 'O.K., who did kill him then?' We just left it there...
...hundreds of youthful Percy-for-Senator volunteers, helped set up 22 campaign centers in the Chicago area, made dozens of warm little speeches for her father. She toured the wards wearing a winsome smile and a button that said, "HI! I'm Valerie Percy-Chuck's My Dad...
...wasn't as if Dad couldn't spare the dough. Oil Billionaire J. Paul Getty, 73, might have settled the matter out of his petty-cash box if he chose. But Gordon Getty, 32, a real estate investor, composer, poet and the youngest of his four living sons, felt compelled to file what he called "a friendly suit" against the old man, asking San Francisco's Superior Court to award him $7,000,000 as his share of the stock dividends accumulated by a trust fund that J. Paul's mother, Sarah Getty, had established...