Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...afraid. In Tulsa Dad worked on a derrick and when he came home he was covered with black oil. His hands. Did he know who I was? Did Dad know Merilee had set up house in the shower stall behind the shower curtain in the bathroom? To his wife Ada he said "One more crack like that and as sure as your ass is brown this boy is gone gone gone...
...second birthday. Mom and Dad marched me into Smilkstein's on South Moger in Kisco, and asked the man what he had in sneakers my size...
...Vadim. Pet's own life has been filled with more familial traumas. She had a mother who taught her to sing and a stage father who pushed her onto a BBC wartime show called It's All Yours, followed by her own Pet's Parlour. Dad eventually parlayed all that into an almost endless J. Arthur Rank contract. At Rank, she played in 25 films including a kind of female Andy Hardy role in the Huggett series. Thanks to a restraining bra and taut parental control of her public image (no dates or off-the-shoulder dresses...
JANE: But I haven't got the discipline or the technique. Having to do it every night for me was death. What Dad does I am totally in awe of. TIME'S JAY COCKS: Do you three make it a point to see what the others are doing...
PETER: In which Dad should play Jub Harshaw, Jane should play Jill the nurse, and I should play Valentine Smith. JANE: He read the book, and that's what gave him the whole business of the group family and the incredible orgies and all that kind of thing. PETER: They weren't incredible. COCKS: They were just regular, g old family orgies. JANE: What Peckinpah wanted to do in The Wild Bunch, from what I read, was for once not just to show violence but to show it in such a way that you really felt what...