There is the cliché of the child who tries ever so hard to follow his or her father's exact path. Then there is the cliché of the child who rebels against everything his or her father stands for.
Which cliche better fits — because surely one must — the life of politico Karl Christian Rove? In his autobiography, Courage and Consequence
Most important of all, what path will his own son, Andrew Madison Rove, 21, take and how will the Rov(ing) story continue?
How bitter is a woman whose daddy has been scorned ... and what will that lead to?
New York Magazine takes a look at Elizabeth Cheney (the hardcore, right wing daughter of former VP, not the lesbian mother of two who sort of humanizes him). The article lays out how personally she took/takes criticism of her dad, who ended his term in office with a 13 percent approval rating (?) and what she is doing to reburnish his legacy, including creating one of her own. Next up, probably, the Liz Cheney for congress campaign heats up.
Angelo Poffo, who died asleep at age 84 in Sarasota and is commemorated in this week's objet d'eBay, may have been the perfect father figure. For a professional heel, he was pretty much everything you'd like to see in a pop, a Navy man, father to two sons (Randy "Macho Man" Savage and "Leaping'" Lanny Poffo) who followed in his professional wrestling leotards, phys ed teacher, and small businessman.
The objet itself is a poster from a February 1965, where Poffo took on his pro wrestling mentor, Carl Engstrom, in a match where he played the heel. In real life, he was always The Face.
They're mocking the man. The Jamaica Tourist Board noticed that "dad" and "bad" rhyme (and that, probably, there are some fathers whose groove is a bit rutted) and introduced their latest marketing campaign.
Totally Dad Dancing asks kids to compete for a family vacation by answering the questions, "Does your dad need some Jamaican dancing rehab?"
To enter, to mock a loving man (or for you dads just to try and cadge a free vacation through acting out on camera), upload videos before May 31, 2010. To see uncontrolled tremors defined as dance, the collection of videoed fathers flailing to music is available.
Creepy and bad news (in a pop culture way) for fathers who spoil their daughters, here comes Daddy's Girl. The Chris R. Notarile film features Zoe Sloane, who in character describes herself: "I guess you could say I'm really shy at times ... and kinda a total daddy's girl.
Like she says, "nothing good can ever come from a bad attitude."
If you can't be overtly angry at the father then at least you can subvert the son. That is the current story in Egypt, where iron-fisted monarch (sorry, democratically elected president) Hosni Mubarak is grooming son Gamal to take over in 2011.
Father Mubarak is a strong man in a divided country, having ruled for 28 years in the wake of the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Son Mubarak has the claim to fame of somehow getting into the Top 100 — seemingly for the possibility that he might become Egyptian pres — when Time Magazine considered its 2009 man of the year.
The WD guess: he wins the election and proposes reasonable and necessary reforms which (in a reaction to a bit more freedom than they had during his father's reign) lead his (father's) enemies to spark enough trouble to cost him the country within a year or two.
It turns out that the eighth place finisher on the fifth season of American Idol can come up with a tear jerker. Country pop's Bucky Covington, released A Father's Love prior to its inclusion on his second album. He says the song just him him in his soft spot.
...He checked the air in my tires, the belts and all the sparkplug wires/Trust us, it plucks on the heart strings much more effectively in song than in abridged words.
Said when's the hell the last time you had this oil changed/
...I didn't hear it then, but I hear it now/
he was saying I loooooove you, I looooooove you/
the only way that he knew how...
"Like father like son" cannot be much truer than in the case of Californian's Tom Pope, 55, and Jafar Thorne, 32. The two Deadheads connected through a chat site devoted to the band and its fans. And the connection turned out to be a bit more than the usual as they are father and son, with son conceived while mother and father grooved to a 7-inch reel-to-reel recording of the Dead's March 19, 1977, show.
The "parents" relationship didn't last much longer than the one night, but the connection between father and son has been forever (even if they didn't know it). Along with their GD devotion — including a readiness to dress up as Uncle Sam when attending concerts — they drive Harleys, play guitar and have done a bit of dabbling in similar drugs. "... Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on..."Keep on Truckin', boys.
