Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yeah, I was like seriously bumming, but then like I found out that my dad had this like giant insurance policy, so I was pretty psyched. I mean, I've been wanting to get a new CD player...
Otherwise there's simply no explanation for the assignment my sister brought home this month. Her first history unit is "The American Dream," and assignment number one was a questionnaire for Mom, Dad and dinner guests about what the American Dream means to us. The answers all had to be yes or no, without qualification, which in itself tends to preclude critical thinking. But it was the questions that really bothered me. Loaded is an understatement...
...Tanner family of NBC's new sitcom ALF has an unusual pet -- an E.T.-like visitor from outer space -- but in most other respects the Tanners are the very picture of TV normality. When Dad comes home from work and gets fawned over by his teenage daughter, he instantly guesses, as TV fathers have done for decades, that she wants to borrow the car. And as they have also done for decades, he puts his foot down: no driving on a school night. "If we don't respect the rules we make, we're never going to respect each other...
...year-old half-Vietnamese boy and a six-year-old black girl. Added to the Wasp pair already on hand, the newcomers set the family melting pot at high boil. The sentiment gets a bit thick, but there is something appealing about the war orphan's brashness ("My dad was a big hero. Maybe you heard of him -- John Wayne") and something real about the way the daughter, who was adopted years earlier, resents the attention given the newcomer. Gould, once Hollywood's epitome of anti-Establishment scruffiness, has drifted into sitcomland with surprising meekness. Still, even an Elliott Gould...
...exactly jump into it, but Michael Reagan is becoming the last of his family to try out an aspect of show biz. His dad Ronald, mother Jane Wyman, stepmother Nancy, sister Maureen, step-siblings Patti Davis and Ron Jr. have all made movies, performed or done TV shows. Now the President's eldest son has made his own screen debut in Cyclone, a sci-fi adventure due out in January. Showing a knack for real-life irony, Reagan, 41, plays a bumbling CIA agent in pursuit of a supersophisticated motorcycle. "I kind of provide some comic relief," says Reagan...