Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprise that kids love Harry Potter. Following in the footsteps of countless children's heroes, Harry Potter travels to a strange and magical place and finds adventure in a world with little adult supervision. As one father remarked, the freedom from parents in this story excites young readers, who identify with Harry as he makes his own decisions...
...Michaela's father Daniel says that he, too, has enjoyed the first two books in the series, "but I'm a little skeptical that I'll still be interested by books five, six and seven." Bosch notes that Harry Potter brings with him a host of commercial opportunites. "Halloween will be Harry Potter, Christmas will be Harry Potter and then the movie in the summer...
Needless to say, this is film about many things. Mostly, it is about a year in the life of Lester Burnham--father, neighbor, self-hater. Because Lester is played by Kevin Spacey, we can see embers glowing behind his eyes even in the darkly comic early stages of the film when he has hit rock bottom: disdained by his harpy wife (Annette Bening), despised by his daughter (lovely, sad-faced Thora Birch) and distant from his own passions. The highlight of his day, Spacey tells us, is a quiet masturbation session in the shower. "It's all downhill from there...
...selfish chomp with scalpel precision, the neighborhood shark had bitten off our one keeper trout from the gills down. Irritated, my father offered the rest of our tiny fish to our new portly friend, seeing as how our haul could no longer make a meal...
...Gilligan's Island" and The Perfect Storm, Ogletree, his elderly father-in-law, a former student, a seasoned captain and other passengers lost power to their engine, received an unexpected helping hand, weathered a severe storm and ultimately had a brush with death...