Word: dad
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Finally. After all these years, we know what drove Willy Wonka to his career as a master chocolatier; it was all his father's fault. Dad was a maniacal dentist who completely forbade candy...
...Happy Endings, Maggie Gyllenhaal is the kind of girl you don't take home to Dad...
...building was once a two-floor, five-bedroom house nestled alongside a whispering sliver of a creek. When my grandfather founded it, it was simply called “Riverside.” My dad and his seven siblings lived upstairs, and had their first jobs ever working below, running errands for the family. In the 1950s, there were rows of sick beds instead of a living room; no true kitchen, I’m told, but rather a cramped cafeteria managed dutifully by my relatives...
...answer any questions about it is an invitation for people to be more interested, not less. I feel comfortable saying that I think people would be surprised that my parents are part of the community in the place where I grew up. I went to public school, my dad worked in the Little League fields when I was a kid, my parents went to my elementary school concerts, where you stand on the risers, and you're all in your suits and you all sing, "God Bless America." My parents were a part of all of that...
...tell stories well. When I think of a model for the kind of career I want to have, I think of a guy like Jakob Dylan. He's in this band, and he plays his own music, and it really doesn't sound all that much like his dad's. It speaks for itself. He worked really hard and did his own thing, and that's what I've tried to do. My publisher's different, my medium is the same, but the subject matter is different, the style is different. I try to be my own person, sink...