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...dad! Video games are achieving even higher shock value by pairing the latest in computer-generated gore with historical tragedies, urban thuggery and real-time foreign crises...
...term "ruthless liberalism" as an antidote to compassionate conservatism. Clooney's father Nick, a former Cincinnati, Ohio, anchorman and host on cable's American Movie Classics, ran for Congress in Kentucky as a Democrat and got crushed. Though George raised funds, he didn't do any campaigning for his dad. "It would have been Hollywood versus the heartland," he says. "I definitely would have hurt him." Charm, apparently, will go only...
Katie Larson is little too young to get it. Her dad Brian has just slipped a blue-and-white-striped shepherd smock over her head. "Look at you," he says. "It's perfect." But Katie, 2, doesn't think so. Two years ago she was Baby Jesus, and that costume was much more comfortable. She begins to cry. "Do you want to hold this cute little baby sheep?" Brian asks, waving a stuffed toy before his daughter's beet-red face. Still no sale...
...that motley crew, thanks for the memories! To Gadfly’s dad, sorry for using “shit” so often. To Jonathan Meltzer, thanks for reading—we’d be talking to ourselves without you. And to everyone else, our sincerest apologies if we failed to offend...
...Buckley's father, '70s folk singer Tim Buckley, abandoned his mother, pianist Mary Guibert, before Jeff was born, and father and son ended up meeting just once, in 1975, two months before the elder Buckley died of a heroin overdose at age 28. Jeff never spoke kindly of his dad, but he did inherit Tim's nimble vocal range and worked tirelessly on the New York City coffeehouse scene to develop his songwriting before landing a record deal with Columbia in 1992. Jeff's only album, 1994's Grace, was promising but inconsistent. It produced a minor hit, Last Goodbye...