Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fifteen year old Jake Livingston (Chris Collet) lives a seemingly ordinary suburban life, exposed even to that symbol of the suburban high school: The Coach. "This could be the most important thing you learn in school," coach tells his lacrosse following, which includes Jake. "I've got to teach you how to dry yourself after the shower. One time I had a bad case of athlete's foot. One night I woke up screaming. The infection had spread from my feet up to my crotch and that's how I lost one of my testicles...
...Livingston children encounter a different crisis at home. Jake Livingston and his ten year old brother Brian (Corey Haim), rushing through a quick breakfast, meet "Sam." Where's Mom? "Asleep" Sam says, and introduces himself awkwardly as Mom's friend...
...Jake, the 11-year-old boy, had little trouble deciding that the husband should steal the drug. His reasoning that a "human life is worth more than money" would, Gilligan says, place him at a high stage of development on a traditional scale, one that shows a principled concern for fairness and deductive logical thinking...
...Kohlberg's scale, Amy is placed on a lower level than Jake because she "seemed to reveal a feeling of powerlessness in the world, an inability to think systematically about the concepts of morality...
...persona that exuded phantom wisps of tenderness and set him quite apart. He was the most intriguing of the Saturday Night troupe even as he was demolishing a set with his samurai sword or gobbling up the scenery in impersonations that ran the gamut from Kissinger to Brando to Jake Blues, a perfect and loving parody of an oldtime soul...