Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hollingsworth's background is eclectic. "When I was 11 my dad asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, and I said 'psychiatrist.' A couple of years later he asked again and I said 'priest.' Now I've sort of combined them." After deciding in four months at Hampshire College that "there was nothing to learn in college, he studied primal scream for a year, then took classes in New for a year, then took classes in New York with a healer. He almost made a pilgrimage to India, but instead trekked across North America visiting healing...
...dad is a phil professor at Brown, and for a long time I didn't understand what he was doing with his life. I took Hum 5 freshman year, and I got hooked...
Everyone's Dad...
...smog hides the tops of the palm trees in Beverly Hills, movie executives console themselves with at least one thought: in bad times people will still go to the movies. It is one of the fondest myths in an industry that deals in myths, and everyone remembers Mom and Dad standing in line at the Bijou during the Depression. How much truth is there to that comforting accepted wisdom? None at all, according to a San Francisco financial analyst. When the rest of the country catches cold, so does Hollywood...
...eerieness of the final slaughter is heightened not only by its verisimilitude, but by the movie's one extraordinary performance. A young actor named Powers Boothe captures all the paranoia, sexual magnetism, hysteria, rage and even intelligence of "Dad" Jim Jones. His final incantations to the dyingdelivered in a feverish but strangely disembodied voicecreate a more deathly mood than all the corpses piling up onscreen. If Writer Tidyman had only matched Boothe's talent with a complexly written role, Guyana Tragedy would be as notable as drama as it is as ratings gambit...