Although he is a good father — thoughtful, trustworthy — DuBois gives him a mercilessly cleareyed view of his daughter, and lets him be irritated at the mess she's made.
He's a satisfied man living a fortunate life, singing about the trajectory from being "this scruffy, beat-up, working-class teenage troubadour" to a thoughtful, happily married father who's still getting "lotsa sexy loving," as one song puts it, and others determinedly insist.
But everyone else obsesses about how best to know and love God, especially the thoughtful, free-thinking Father Thomas Jeremy Shamoss), who counsels Margery, and Juliana of Norwich (a wonderful Marylouise Burke), who hasn't left her small room in 30 years lest she fall prey to temptations.
It's a thoughtful reflection on fathers and sons, men and women and the nature of fantasy, with a few Irish mafiosi thrown in, and I remain in awe of anyone who can work an Ayn Rand joke into a story about Stringfellows.
By most accounts, Jerome Lemelson's sons have been proven to be thoughtful stewards of their father's many millions.
"To challenge a thoughtful, moderate and pragmatic father," Weisberg argues, "he trained himself to be hasty, extreme and unbending.
Every day at lunchtime, 14-year-old Emma Claire Callaghan gets a small but incredibly thoughtful reminder of her father's love.
The other is Armie Hammer, portraying Oliver, an alluring 20-something graduate student who spends several weeks under the mentorship of Elio's esteemed professor father (a thoughtful Michael Stuhlbarg) at the family's lush villa.
In John B. Judis's thoughtful review (July 9) of my father's book, "C.
