Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kramer vs. Kramer, for all its exposure of the pangs of divorce for Mom and Dad, portrayed the children of divorce as the emotional equivalent of furniture, just another trinket to split in the final settlement. Firstborn looks at the American family in the aftermath of divorce and examines the furniture that must grow up with "new relationship" Skillfully avoiding the artistic temptation to transform the Livingston family into Every Family and the film into The Social Statement, Firstborn draws us into a painful and complex story that may be one of this year's best films...
...Alright. Next Tuesday the musicians will convene in New York for a nationally syndicated "family birthday celebration" radio broadcast in honor of John and Sean, who were both born on Oct. 9. Does his first recording mean the younger Lennon plans to follow in Mom's and Dad's musical foot steps? "It seems kind of inevitable," admits Yoko. "Then again I'm prepared for the possibility that he'll want to be a baseball player...
...also been provided, like his real-life doppelgānger, with a black father and a Mediterranean mother. In the movie, Dad cuffs Mom around a good deal: he is a frustrated musician, which explains these bouts of violent temper; she shrieks and screams a lot, which presumably demonstrates her ethnicity. If women are sexual baubles in Prince's songs, in his movie they are tarnished angels who love to have their wings clipped. Apollonia (the "baptismal name" of Newcomer Patricia Kotero, 22) strips down and jumps into an icy lake to win The Kid's approval...
Dear Mom and Dad...
...Land of Fantasia. I mean, he's the one who controls the gate of the people in the book. And they are really weird people too. There's a flying dragon and a two-faced woman and figures like the chessmen you have in the den, Dad, and a handsome boy warrior and a wise little ballerina Empress of Fantasia. Noah Hathaway and Tami Stronach make a cute couple as these last two-sort of the preteen Arnold Schwarzenegger and Grace Kelly...