Word: daughters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, where troubles melt like lemon drops and everyone looks more handsome than they really are, Lee Iacocca is doing a passable fox-trot with his daughter. "It's great," he says of the chance to retrieve the old dances. "To me they never went away. We've just had a hiatus for 15 years." This ultimate nightclub reopened last year after a $20 million renovation, and now receives 1,000 calls a day for reservations. "It's what you wanted to have money to spend on," says Joe Baum, mastermind of the dazzling...
...with a comparatively terse Venetian scene: "In the churning wake of a motorboat from one of the luxury hotels, the gondola bobbed with graceful disequilibrium. The tall, thin, handsome man sitting in the gondola gripped the sides of the small wooden craft and said to his seven-year-old daughter, 'Hold on.' He thought, Gondolas are atavistic." Never mind that adjectives here are pulling more weight than they ought to bear. The real problem is the terminal apercu. Nothing that follows in this brief, intermittently charming story about a man and his daughter quite obliterates an annoying question: How, exactly...
Dear John is just one of a slew of new shows that focus on not-so-swinging singles. Single dad James Naughton copes (tediously) with a teenage daughter in CBS's Raising Miranda, and Richard Mulligan mugs (insufferably) as a middle-aged widower in NBC's Empty Nest. Meanwhile, Kate Jackson reprises Diane Keaton's role as a Manhattan yuppie trying to juggle a baby and a high- pressure corporate job in NBC's Baby Boom. The pilot episode plays too much like a Reader's Digest version of the movie (both written by Charles Shyer and Nancy Meyers...
...parents, as Yale's Zigler notes, is probably "energy level vs. maturity." It may be that attentiveness and commitment to children will offset the disadvantages of age. "I am a parent, not an old parent," insists Los Angeles lawyer John Schulman, 42, father of a 2 1/2- year-old daughter. "I devote time, energy and love to my child." Says Zigler: "Good parenting is a process of bonding and attachment. This is more important than the age of the parent...
...Colonel Anthony Shine, who vanished in 1972 while piloting an Air Force reconnaissance jet near the border of Laos and Viet Nam. Shine has been listed as missing in action ever since. "It's not knowing for sure that makes it tough," says Colleen Shine, 24, the flyer's daughter. "There's always the chance that he might walk into this room." For Colleen Shine and thousands like her, that uncertainty remains more terrible than accepting the death of a loved...