Father Gone

Many times one thing isn't really significant for what is really is, but for how it makes you think. So it is with this week's objet d'eBay, a Laser Disc of Dad, the 1989 tearjerker of a father and son learning about their love for each other, which starred Jack Lemmon and Ted Danson.

The movie is mostly forgotten and many believe for good reasons, but the idea of a movie about a father on a laser disc, a once brilliant and now mostly lost technology, still calls to mind movie man Paul Newman, a significant star now lost to his public. Some of his magic as a man will be dimmed by age, but among his forever fans will be his surviving daughters, who honored him as an extraordinary inspiration.