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Girls these days struggle with body image starting at younger and younger ages, and researchers are discovering that relationships between fathers and daughters can have a direct effect on problems like eating disorders. Dr. Margo Maine, the author of Father Hunger: Fathers, Daughters and Food (Gurze Books) has treated thousands of girls in her 20-year career. She has observed that "a high percentage of them said they felt disconnected from their fathers. They were desperate for approval and not getting it. Girls eager for attention from their fathers will diet as a way to get it. Fathers tend...
Traditionally, Todd is portrayed as a commanding force—his mere presence terrifies. Here the demonic barber, played by Benjamin D. Margo ’04, is a child in a monster’s body. The loss of his wife to the sexual deviance of Judge Turpin (George F. Broadwater ’04) has left him spiritless and empty. Upon his first entrance he sits on the front of the stage, his right arm in a sling—a physical disability that mirrors an internal one. His mission, to avenge the destruction of his family, emerges...
...character at times incongruous and, worse, uninteresting. The text too often calls for him to use wit, intelligence and logic, making it unbelievable that he could so deftly educate Anthony in wigmaking, arrange his daughter’s rescue from bedlam and lure the judge to his death chamber. Margo is even prevented from enjoying the brilliant humor in an abbreviated “A Little Priest...
That’s not to say, though, that McClelland has not put great thought into his conception of the show. Regarding McClelland’s approach to the production, Sweeney himself (Benjamin D. Margo ’04) said, “He’s not treating the play as if it’s too precious, not like something that he has to do the way other people have done...
...similar case is now working its way through a Florida court. In 1987 Margo Kantaras underwent hormonal treatment and surgery, emerging as Michael Kantaras. Michael later married and became an adoptive father to wife Linda's son from a previous relationship, and together the couple had a daughter, who was artificially conceived using sperm provided by Michael's brother. Linda says she was aware Michael was a transsexual when they married, but is now divorced and suing for sole custody of the children because, she says, her ex-husband is not truly male and is therefore unsuitable as a father...