Word: jakes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Utilizing autobiographical elements, Feiffer performs major surgery on an American Jewish family. He draws blood and then salts the wounds. His hero, Jake (Bob Dishy), is a well-regarded journalist in early middle age with a secure post on the New York Times. He seems agreeably married to an attractive wife, Louise (Cheryl Giannini), and they have a perky seven-year-old daughter named Edie (Jennifer Dundas...
...exultant Jake Faller bounded into the photo shop in Marina del Rey, Calif., with a roll of Kodacolor II film in hand. Just one hour later, the real estate developer raced back to St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica to show the pictures of their new daughter to his wife, who was still in the recovery room. That rapid service is the signature of a new addition to the $2.2 billion-a-year consumer photo-finishing field: the one-hour film-processing shop...
Into this quiet disarray bursts Randall (Jake Lamar), a schizophrenic, self-proclaimed "young gentleman of color" (this is set in 1961); an impossibly jive, cool dude who proceeds to play a tense game of thrust and parry with Mr. Glas, the store-owner, (David Reiffel). As the two are gradually getting a feel for one another, in bursts a young Jewish girl (everyone seems to burst into Slow Dance) on her way to have an abortion and about to faint...
...They did it the way they had to do it," Auteri said. "They gave Jake (Cheney) a hard time getting off the ball, and more importantly, they put a lot of pressure...
...high altitude in Mexico City took its toll on many athlets, and the boat had to shuffle its members before a last-gasp qualifying race. Steve Brooks moved from the three-spot to stroke, and Jake Fiechter '67 took three. Brooks, now a private economic consultant in Worcester, had stroked the undefeated freshman boat just a year before...