Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...half years ago Linda Ferris underwent Caesarean section, in the birth of a daughter, Andrea, at the Pasadena Bayshore Hospital. During the birth, the Ferrises claimed, Andrea suffered the oxygen deprivation that caused her to become permanently brain-damaged; according to doctors, she will remain at the mental and physical level of a two-year-old for the rest of her life, which could be 75 more years...
...medical supervision and so on. In a real sense, they will suffer more than Andrea will: she will never understand what has happened to her, while the Ferrises will be reminded every day, possibly for the rest of their own lives, of the terrible thing that happened to their daughter...
...newcomer to the evening's spectacle, Sebastian Knowles, plays the pompous Sir Joseph Porter. All three men, along with Craig Bierko as Dick Deadeye and Jo Milroy as Little Buttercup, give the evening's most superb performances. Crowley successively displays the Captain's frustrations in trying to convince his daughter Josephine (Nancy Fatzick) to marry Sir Joseph. Countering the Captain's well-meaning intentions, the lowly seaman hero Ralph Rackstraw falls passionately in love with Josephine. Monnen plays the foiled lover with the proper heaving chest and perpetually sighing demeanor, and his gentle tenor complements his melodramatic physical presence...
Newcomer Tom Burlinson stars as Jim Craig, a mountain boy orphaned in the timberlands of Australia's Great Divide. Craig returns to the high country to conquer the wild horses responsible for his father's death, and to win the love of Jessica, the spirited daughter of wealthy rancher Harrison (Kirk Douglas). On the way he encounters a gang of drunken cattlehands who try first to humiliate, then to kill, him; a legendary horseman who rides whistling through mountain-passes as coyotes howl in the background; and Spur (also Kirk Douglas), a grizzled prospector with a pegleg...
Kirk Douglas, as Spur, is appealingly folksy, despite a poor makeup job that leaves him with a Clouseau-like costume nose. He is equally convincing in his dual role as the rancher Harrison, capturing the character's stiff formality and paternal desire to raise his way-ward daughter as "a lady." Young Burlinson, with his impish smile and refreshing honesty, is certainly a find, and Jack Thompson, who will seem familiar for his role as the defense attorney in "Breaker Morant," plays a half-cowboy, "half-bloodhound" tracker with panache...