Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Through the course of his investigation we encounter an intriguing array of suspects, including a lovelorn mistress, a frail mother with a ferocious grip on the family, a wife with an overly loving relationship with her cousin, a bitterly estranged daughter with a lover in the Communist Party, and a brother-in-law with several lovers among the Berowne's servant staff--one of whom is both a decoy member of the Communist Party and an undercover policewoman...
...Farber's compassion as much as his brilliance that made him the single most important human being my father had ever known," Irene Mayer Selznick, Mayer's daughter and president of the foundation, said on Saturday during a ceremony held by the hospital to acknowledge the donation...
...spent the following five years in Manhattan, studying with Lee Strasberg and appearing in more than 140 TV shows. He also met and married Brooke Hayward, the daughter of Producer Leland Hayward, and she introduced him to her friend Peter Fonda. Teaming for a series of low-budget motorcycle movies, Hopper and Fonda were ready to turn in their Harley-Davidsons when they decided to make just one more, for the money. "We saw it as a western, only on motorcycles," says Hopper. "We were the strangers in town, the outlaws." With Easy Rider, which Hopper directed, these cocaine-sniffing...
...Ellen conceives of her story as a tribute to "my poor dear, dead dad," and that is pretty much what she provides. Billy Henshaw inherits sole responsibility for his young daughter after his wife and son die during the influenza epidemic that swept through Britain in World War I. "My dad always called himself not a pianist but a pianoplayer," Ellen recalls. "Pianoplayer gives you the idea of him and the instrument being like all one thing, jammed together." Billy makes his way by accompanying the silent films at a Manchester movie house during the mid-1920s. Unfortunately, he possesses...
...Daughter and father next fetch up in the English seacoast resort of Blackpool, where Billy has caught on with a music-hall troupe. He gets in trouble there too, falling for the company's soubrette, stage-named Maggie Paramour, who is married to a violinist in the same motley ensemble. Ellen, by this time nubile and knowing beyond her years, sees trouble coming from several directions, but not the sexual ambush by Mr. Flushing, whose wife owns the boarding house where she and her father stay and where Billy has fallen a wee bit behind in paying the bills. After...