Word: tomming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Things are just as bad over at the Hortons in Days of Our Lives ?but nipper. Venerable Dr. Tom Horton is presiding over four generations of chaos. His wife's religious faith is wavering...
...eldest son Dr. Tom Jr. has recovered from amnesia. His second son Mickey still has amnesia and is now called Marty Hanson. Dr. Tom Sr.'s granddaughter Julie has been married twice. Recently she fell downstairs, and the baby she was carrying died. Julie is really in love with her late mother's husband Doug Williams. She cannot marry him because she feels guilty. Doug has entered an artificial insemination program so that his child by Julie's mother may have a playmate. Unknown to him, his housekeeper has arranged to be the child's mother. Julie's son David...
...happened that a woman who underwent a hysterectomy years ago suddenly becomes a mother; nor has it been unknown for a man to marry his sister, revealed years before to have been his father's illegitimate child. Days of Our Lives writers literally abandoned Dr. Tom's eldest son, an amnesiac who lusted openly but unknowingly after his sister Marie, finally driving her to a nunnery. Then he went upstairs to bed. That was more than two years ago. Last month he came downstairs. Days' cast expected him to say: "What's for breakfast? I'm famished...
...absent father, the telephone-company man who "fell in love with long distance." The suffocating mother, Amanda, uses up all the oxygen in any room she enters. The crippled sister, Laura, is as fragile as her tiny glass animals, and the task of the artist-to-be, Tom, is to break out of this enmeshing spider web if he is to salvage his own soul...
...Torn, always an exciting stage presence, is just right for Tom. He never lets the moody dreamer erode the spiky will to escape and achieve. While a trifle too young for the part, Paul Rudd as the "gentleman caller" captures a quality that is very difficult to project from a stage, the kindness...