Posts Tagged ‘Father’s Day’

Happy Father’s Day: Top Five Dads Currently on TV

Written by NY Press on . Posted in NY Press Exclusive

Jay Prittchard on Modern Family. By Magdalena Burnham In the early days of TV, there was nothing more sacred than the idea of the American father, so TV dads tended to be all-knowing figures of unquestioned authority. This makes those old shows seem stale and unrealistic. Eventually, shows like The Simpsons and Married with Children took down the idealized father figure
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Here Comes the Elderhood Revolution

Written by admin on . Posted in Dewing Things Better, On Topic OTDT, Opinion and Column

Again, Father’s Day ads showed only relatively “new dads.” Not unlike Mother’s Day ads and Grandparents’ Day ads only depict lively ball-tossing elders. Visitors from that other planet seeing these commercials figure that earthlings stay forever youthful and vigorous. The Elderhood Revolution is a longtime a-comin’. Indeed, it seems headed in the wrong direction, with
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