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True to the spirit of the commandment, if not the letter, "Decalogue 4"--"Honor thy father and thy mother"--is a provocative look at incest. A motherless girl suspects that her father is not actually her father and draws him into a game of deceit to expose the unacknowledged desire that lies between them. But is he really not her father? And if he were her father, would that change the feelings that they have for each other? Forbidden desire clashes with the expectations that each family member holds to another. From the opening water-fight between father and daughter...
...resist him? Mouth agape, face slapped between his hands, Culkin's visage is America's home-sweet-home version of Edvard Munch's The Scream, with the angst pasteurized. In the just-released My Girl, a story about a motherless, hypochondriac tomboy and her best friend Thomas J. (Culkin), he does the unspeakable for a preadolescent (has his first screen kiss) and the unthinkable for a budding megastar (dies well before the end). "It was easy," says Mack. "I just pretended I was sleeping." It could turn out to be the most talked-about movie death since a hunter shot...
...however, the myth of the New World plutocrat persisted. This was still the impression that Gatzoyiannis gave when he met the boat that carried his motherless children from Piraeus to New York City in 1949. Gage, then nine, recalls his father's "gleaming black oxfords, gray overcoat, and broad fedora -- an island of style in a sea of weeping and embracing refugees." The reunited family boarded a new blue DeSoto for the ride to Worcester. The car turned out to be rented, the old mill town no Athens, and Christos Gatzoyiannis no big shot...
...consign his fate to a woman who would later ask friends, "How can that oaf be so successful when I am so much more talented and educated?" Goldman provides reams of material but few answers. The best he can come up with is Lennon's unhappy motherless childhood. That may explain neurosis; the peculiar, electric genius still waits for a proper accounting...
...this season. Pam Dawber (Mork and Mindy) becomes a roommate and surrogate parent for a runaway sibling in CBS's My Sister Sam. In ABC's Heart of the City, a police detective has himself transferred out of the SWAT unit so he can spend more time with his motherless children. And Starman, also on ABC, brings back the alien from John Carpenter's 1984 sci-fi film and unites him with the son he fathered on his first trip to earth...