Word: fatherness
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...Tyler's older brother Michael, a sensitive musician, committed suicide on his own 22nd birthday; in Tyler's mind, it was all the fault of his father Charles (Pierce Brosnan) for pressuring Michael into joining his white shoe law firm. It seems unlikely that the drudgery of paralegal work actually pushed Michael over the edge, but we have plenty more evidence that Charles is an awful father. His refusal to pay any attention to Tyler's little sister Caroline (Ruby Jerins) seems pathological, especially since she is, like Tyler, straight out of Salinger: wise beyond her years, talented and soulful...
...eyes speak volumes. Plimpton is a nice physical match as well; her features link up nicely with those of de Ravin, all cleaned up here from her role on Lost and exuding a soft, sunshiny glow. The resemblance helps us appreciate the obvious psychic weight on Ally's father (Chris Cooper), a weary policeman who drives her everywhere so she doesn't have to take the subway...
...Harvard, Jody at first fought to adapt. Her father was an immigrant Auschwitz survivor, and her mother was born and raised in Brooklyn. Neither of them went to college. “I remember her mother always used to want to come up and sleep in our college dorm,” says Claire Goodman Cloud ’79, who became Jody’s roommate. “She had never been to college, so she wanted to feel what it was like...
Claire helped with the transition—“Claire, about as quintessential Manhattan as you can get, but not ‘that’ person,” says Jody. Claire’s father is Roy M. Goodman ’51, a state senator from Manhattan who held office from 1969 to 2002: the Statesman of the State Senate, they called...
...Master and Commander Holly Graf had dreamed of skippering a Navy vessel ever since her high school days in Simsbury, Conn. Her father was a Navy captain, and her sister Robin wanted to go to sea too. (Robin eventually became an admiral - and married one; Holly is single.) After she graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1985, colleagues sensed that Graf was on a fast track to flag rank. (See the best pictures...