Word: patly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Heston, Jimmy Stewart and Rosalind Russell. Comedian Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra will star at the entertainments to be held in the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Other performances will range from the Philadelphia Orchestra, with Pianist Van Cliburn, to Soul Singer James Brown and Pat Boone...
...many ways An American Family is a soap opera. The father, William Loud, 50, is a handsome, successful businessman in flossy Santa Barbara, Calif. The mother, Pat, 45, is equally handsome, with a touch of sophistication her husband lacks. Their five children-Lance, 20; Kevin, 18; Grant, 17; Delilah, 16; and Michele, 14-are bright, good-looking and almost unanimously articulate...
...complete without anguish, the Loud family has its troubles. Eldest son Lance has migrated to New York to join the gay community. As the twelve episodes of Family unfold on the TV screen, Bill's business runs into serious financial problems. Finally, toward the middle of the series, Pat and Bill decide to get a divorce...
Shocked. The television audience may or may not agree-and in any case may not care. An American Family is extraordinarily interesting to watch. But the Louds, collectively and individually, have been shocked by the film. "I think they have dealt badly with our honor and trust," complains Pat. Craig Gilbert "left out all the joyous, happy hours of communication and fun." "It's a caricature," says Lance, who is already writing his own version of the filming. "My father is perpetrated as a stagger-on drunk and I'm shown as a swish...
...another, the Louds permitted the filming. But anyone who has ever raised children, or who can remember his own childhood, will feel a shock of recognition seeing Gilbert's film. "It was a terrific family in many ways," says Alan Raymond, who shot most of the scenes. "Both Pat and Bill tried to be good parents...