Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wants to be a dancer, and they both want to be in love. There are obstacles along the path to a happy ending. Rosemarie's stern mom (Viveca Lindfors) feels that deaf people should stick to their own kind. Drew must act as keeper for both his gambling dad (Alex Rocco) and his ne'er-do-well kid brother (Barry Miller). Meanwhile, agents are not breaking down the doors to offer the young lovers performing contracts...
...dad would hit with me sometimes, but on the same side of the net," she recalls. "I was so small I couldn't see over...
...looking for a good cry, The Champ might seem a likely bet to deliver the goods. This movie has every tear-jerking device known to Hollywood, and then some. Its central characters are an adorable eight-year-old boy and his loving dad, a has-been boxer. The action is pure hokum. Will Dad throw off his addictions to gambling and booze and make a comeback in the ring? Will Dad's exwife, now a remarried society lady, try to regain custody of the son she once abandoned? Will Dad and Mom fall in love again? Will...
...children are laying there now, I'd rather see them lay like that than to see them have to die like the Jews did, which was pitiful. Like Dad [the cultists called Jones "Dad"] said, when they come in, they're going to massacre our children. And the ones that they take cap ture, they're gonna just let them grow up and be dummies. And not grow up to be a person like the one and only Jim Jones. [Applause...
When lanky Kyle Petty, 18, asks, "Dad, can I have the car?" that familiar request acquires a special meaning. Dad in this case is "King" Richard Petty, 41, stock-car racing's winningest driver. Richard, in turn, is the son of Lee Petty, 64, who won on everything from dirt tracks to superspeedways. The family car is likely to be a souped-up $50,000 Dodge Magnum. Kyle has opted to follow in the family tire tracks. In his first race he gunned to a half-car-length victory at 131.964 m.p.h. "He drove a hell of a race...