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On TV, father knew best, once upon a time. And then came along a descending display of dads who spit hatred, inane phrases -- 'D'ohhh! -- and merely drooled. How and why have TV's dads disintegrated? Story
[Times art: Brandon Jeffords]
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- TV's landmark dads
Some of these guys might not be the most positive father figures on TV, but here's my list of TV's most important dads, in chronological order, based on the year they first hit the small screen.
A call to a new fatherhood
Family has always been a high priority for one St. Petersburg man; now life's changes have led him to a priestly vocation, combining fatherhood with God.
Proceeding with caution
When I was a kid, my father would take my brother and me for rides, probably just to get us out of the house and give my mother a break. I never knew the purpose of those rides at the time, but to me it meant parking by the roadside to pick daisies for my mother, stopping for a chocolate soda at the drugstore, then driving slowly back through the neighborhood streets before we finally floated to a stop in front of our house.
[Drawings courtesy of Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum Inc.]
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Big top to the big time
Always more than just a circus and art museum, the Ringling Museum may be poised for even greater things as a major overhaul aims to create a world-class cultural destination.
New 'docu-crime' shows feed an addiction
Would this TV writer actually enjoy watching the travails of real-life prosecutors and defendants on yet another batch of crime shows? Guilty as charged.
Art talk
Arts leaders sweat state budget decisions
Audio files: Go Johnny go
THE JOHNNY ZOOM CHEERLEAD SQUAD, HONEY BABY SWEETIE (JOHNNYZOOMCHEERLEADSQUAD.COM) -- Tampa's Johnny Zoom Cheerlead Squad takes its inspiration from Britpop without sounding dated or like genre fetishists. Johnny Zoom's swirling guitars, Stan Banana's curvaceous bass lines and those oh-so-wry lyrics about dames who've done Zoom wrong may remind some of the Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order or the best of the Manchester bands of the early 1990s.
