Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dear Mum: Recently TIME ran a note from "Dave" to his "Dad" in the Video section instead of Letters. The point of the letter seemed to be that we did not film The Thorn Birds [March 28] in Australia and that we did not do our research. Dave certainly...
...years old and you're never had a job your family is God fearing and practice to the core. Perhaps and Perhaps your dad works on an assembly line, and so will one day. In either case when your slight number camas up you'll go. There's no doubt about...
...book suffers most from Alexander's sheer inability to make us feel a fine-tuned understanding of Jean-Harris likes to analyze herself in terms of popular psychology. (Alexander notes that Harris was much influenced by Gail Sheehy's Passages). "Defying Dad was the main reason I married Jim," she says. "Also, unlike Dad, he was very quiet." Alexander seems content to accept in large part Harris's self-analysis, and indeed never questions why Harris needed to indulge in this sort of speculation. It is ironic and sad that Alexander fails to analyze her subject in the depth crucial...
Every riven family should have this dilemma: 30 years after deserting you, Dad shows up on your stoop with six months to live and $687,000 in cash to buy his way back into your affections. This latest in Neil Simon's fantasies of generation-gap bridgework runs mainly on charm, not on the bile and bathos that fueled Only When I Laugh and I Ought to Be in Pictures. Jason Robards, the errant father, is as resourcefully genial as a Damon Runyon Santa Claus; Donald Sutherland keeps his dimples flexed playing a policeman who demonstrates his love...
...Dear Dad...