Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dad was behind me 100 per cent. He didn't pressure...
Unfair to Dad and Jane...
Brooke Shields [Aug. 13] is a remarkably fine person with great acting potential. However, I stated that she was as professional as my father and understood more about the camera and lenses than my sister. She is certainly not yet a better actor. That would be unfair to Dad and Jane...
...like everything else this exciting new music was susceptible to the process that had become a metaphor for the decade--cloning. They knew that they could sell overproduced pseudo-New Wave to most of its fans, artsy fartsy students with plenty of money and charge cards from Mom and Dad, ugly girls without taste or talent, nouveau hipsters who found Talking Heads "well, you kneu, so bizarre...
...think his parents would be upset, and they are; but they also respond with a bit of levity. Dave's mother, bemused, humors his irate father with lines like, "Well, we could strangle him in his sleep." Dad, played by Paul Dooley, keeps up a blustering manner with his family, making those rare moments when he lets out some real emotion very powerful. Occasionally the father-son relationship lapses into Mayberry RFD sappiness, but altogether this is the most believable family since "Leave It to Beaver." It's enough to make you believe in middle America...