I'd Pay to See That

Today's news that the O'Neals (troubled Tatum, near-insane Ryan) have moved in together as part of their pitch for a reality show raises one, very important question: How much money could be made with a pay-per-view Celebrity Death Match (real, not cartoon) between father-daughter teams  O'Neal and Lohan?

From the far corner, we will have the actors and decade-long spatting O'Neals, who were most recently in the news when daddy Ryan admitted to hitting on beloved (?) daughter Tatum at his lover's funeral. [Earlier: Denouncing de Dad] Facing them for all the [lost] marbles will be the spotlight addict Michael — probably hoarse and sweaty from the recording session for his song for his incarcerated daughter — and the currently re-habbing, choo-choo-off-the-tracks cuckoo, actress Lindsay. [Earlier: A Nnoying]

It seems like a big payday for someone. Where's Don King when you really need him?

Making Out With Papa

Among the ways dad and daughter Osbourne are connected is in their pursuit of the just-a-bit-off public persona. Somehow, somewhere there is a movie in the works that will take a look at metalist/reality dad Ozzy Osbourne's life. Among the folks the man well known for his head banging tones and dove- and/or bat-head chomping ways

For that movie, Ozzy (born John Michael about 62 years ago) has suggested that either (African-American) Denzel Washington or Prince might be good at playing his life as a dyslexic, high school dropout from Birmingham, England, who grows up to claim the mantle as "Prince of [Rock] Darkness." To match her father, daughter Kelly is throwing her panties in the ring to be cast in the movie as Ozzy's wife even though, "...it’d be a bit weird having to make out with someone playing my dad!" Wake up Signmund Freud ....

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Goodness from Father and Daughter

The surety of youth is the folly that amuses when old. That is the takeaway from an interview with Mpho Tutu — daughter of Archbishop Desmond Tutu and co-author with him of Made for Goodness. When asked if she knew as the daughter of such a revered religious figure that she, too, would eventually make a home and career with religion, Tutu was clear:

Absolutely not! That was the one thing I was absolutely clear I was not going to be. I wasn’t sure what I was going to be, but I was very sure what I was not going to be. 

And yet somehow, the influence of her father, the good and the bad of his experience, led her in the same direction he moved. Together, they have the faith that people are "hardwired for goodness" and Mpho describes herself as "privileged" to be daughter of the man who led her down the path toward true goodness.

Punch Love

In one of the more unlikely love stories, we find a father, daughter and boxing. It was explored in detail a few years ago as A Surprise in the Ring in the Los Angeles Times by Kurt Streeter. A former gang banging, heroin shooting, ex-felon Joe has a bond with his third-child baby girl that blooms into an extraordinary partnership in the ring. Now, potential 2012 Olympian Seniesa Estrada, on the verge of turning pro, has joined her father in telling their story, "My Daughter the Boxer," for Story Corps. At eight she wanted to box; at 17 she's on her way to being a media star in so many ways because of the natural love between father and daughter.

A Torch At the Shrine of the Hardball

The Santelli torch has been passed from father to son (who shares it with his daughter).

In the moving tribute to Arlington-interred veteran Robert J. Santelli there is notice that he wanted to be "the next Mark Twain" and that he was very much interested in sports as participant and fan, as well as bringing that involvement to his children. Oldest son Robert, an author of travel and New Jerseyiana, has now joined with daughter Jenna in another tribute that also serves to honor his father. The Baseball Fan's Bucket List is a guide to activities during the days of professional baseball as well as the off season for how to honor your (joint) adoration at the shrine of the hardball.

Funny but True

Fathers and children may role play — one a businessman by day, the other a daytime math student, for example — but ultimately they are who they are. So it is when Mike and Jessica Weiss (South Brunswick, N.J., father and daughter combo of "Grandma Hates Technology") take to the stage. They improvise a variety of situations with comedy as a goal, but their relationship always comes through, and no time more truly for the father than when his daughter verbally flips him off and he responds, "I'm a little slow, but I [finally, after nine years] got it..."