Word: dads
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with I've Got You Under My Skin, he had the old nasal pitch and easy delivery. Sinatra's son, by a first marriage dissolved eleven years ago, is a drama student at Arizona State College, but he really wants to be a music man. What did dad think? "My father is not the kind of person who says much about things like this," said the Little Voice. "He just said, 'Good, good that's nice...
Asleep in his mother's arms throughout his first press conference, the three-week-old Earl of St. Andrews was soundly pro claimed by Fleet Street's eagle-eyed editors to look just like his dad. Son of Prince Edward and Katharine, the Duke and Duchess of Kent, the titled but yet unchristened infant earl-tenth in line to the British throne-has an imperial adventure ahead. Along with his father, a captain in the Royal Scots Greys, he will soon move to Hong Kong as the transferred regiment's unofficial mascot...
...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
...another, and that a month's vacation together on the West Coast will help them show it. They get to a crumbling gingerbread monstrosity by the sea. It's a barrel-of-fun house, of course, with live-in bats and a pump that requires surgery. Before Dad can get the luggage stowed away ("My friends all call me Redcap"), his two married daughters show up with broody broods in tow. and in obvious need of a good divorce counselor. One little grandson, who seems to have been born under a rock, calls Stewart "Boom-pah," and Boom...
...reels roll on, Dad, the inept irascible bumbler, turns into a smarmy Mr. Fixit, and even gets his tooth-traumatized daughter a date with Fabian, the tonsil titan of the teenette set. who breathes all over a song called Cream Puff. In one genuinely funny sequence, John McGiver. as a laconic bird watcher, cues Stewart, during a predawn to post-dusk ordeal, on how to spot man's feathered friends. Since there are no recognizable humans in it, Mr. Hobbs is really strictly for the bird watchers...