Word: dad
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Coleman), a dentist whose laid-back manner does not hide a will hard as a platinum inlay. Then there is his 13-year-old son, Billy (Doug McKeon, who gets the bravado, vulnerability and candor of adolescence just right). He is toughing out a feeling that since Mom and Dad divorced he is essentially homeless, that the idea of dumping him with the old folks while Dad and Chelsea go to Europe is desertion...
Thompson's play?a critical success and modest hit on Broadway, with Frances Sternhagen and Tom Aldridge as the Thayers?almost filled the bill: it had everything but a role for Peter. "My dad isn't exactly Norman Thayer, but there's a lot of Dad in the part. And I guess there's a lot of Chelsea, Norman's daughter, in me. Like Chelsea, I had to get over the desperate need I once had for his approval, and to conquer my fear of him. We've never been intimate...
...dad simply is not an intimate person...
...feel it, know it, play it." When Jane and Dabney Coleman, who played Chelsea's beau, would take time to discuss motivation, Kate and Hank would have giggle fits. In one scene, Jane recalls, "we were setting up a light, and I wanted it moved so I could see Dad better and he could...
...Dad said, 'I don't need to see you. I'm not that kind of actor.' I felt humiliated; I wanted to cry. Kate understood. She put her arm around me and said, 'Tracy did it to me all the time...