Word: fatherhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Adventures in Fatherhood...
...Premise In Big Daddy, Sandler plays Sonny Koufax, a toll collector who has never relaly grown up (sound familiar?) That becomes a major problem when he decides to adopt a kid in a misguided attempt to woo his ex-girlfriend back. The first thing Sonny learns about fatherhood is that children do not come with a money-back guarantee. After accepting that, he learns a lot more--about raising a child and about himself...
When Armin Brott's first child, Tirzah, was very young, someone asked her what her father did. She answered without hesitation: "He washes the dishes." Brott, 40, an athletic ex-Marine and the Berkeley, Calif., author of a series of hugely popular books on fatherhood, didn't set out to be the superdad's superdad. When Tirzah was born eight years ago, he was working as a contract negotiator for a shipping company and thought business was his calling. But he found himself taking more time off and, over his employer's objections, bringing his little girl to work...
...steps without collapsing into a chair--blossomed forth with an extraordinary intellectual radiance and simplicity. He displayed as never before a splendid gift for conversation, for friendship (I knew him a little), for teaching (he was a professor for years at the University of South Carolina) and for fatherhood. It was in that last period--his once massive and muscular body shrunken, gasping for breath because of a fibrosis of the lungs--that James and Christopher Dickey drew together after years of estrangement and that Christopher began writing Summer of Deliverance...
...starved masses and be morally proactive at the same time. Well, dig this: Explosions are cool, and so are intact families! That's the message promulgated by Lethal Weapon 4, in which the above-mentioned scene takes place. As Mel Gibson's character comes to terms with impending fatherhood and Danny Glover's with impending grandfatherhood, the film wends its curious way, alternating crashes and neck breakings with scenes of limp domestic comedy--scenes that wouldn't be out of place on Home Improvement, except that Tim Allen never says lines like "This f___ing guy! What...