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Father Figure

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First episode dateSeptember 18, 2013
Final episode dateOctober 23, 2013
Networks BBC One
Number of episodes 6
Creators Jason Byrne
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About Father Figure


Tom is married with two sons and tries to be the best Dad he can.

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... He joins a cult led by a charismatic Father Figure played by Adrien Brody, and things go south from there...

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... " Father FigureThe reasons he came up with, he says, include that Ryan hasn t met Tommy very much and so doesn t fully know what he s like...

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... Mr Moehringer s own 2005 autobiography on the subject, The Tender Bar, discussed his childhood in Long Island being raised by a single mother, and finding a Father Figure in his Uncle Charlie and a pack of barflies at the local watering hole...

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... Mulligan was not related to any of them, but Cole had raised him since he was nine months old and considered himself a Father Figure...

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... Leon s birth dad is in prison, but the boy eventually finds a Father Figure in Tufty, played by Kirby, who won a Bafta in 2021 for Sir Steve McQueen s Small Axe...

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... The prisoners really enjoy it and the chance to get to be that Father Figure, which they ve not had for two years now [due to the pandemic] - and it s good for staff to get to know their background...

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... Damian Hurley, who was aged nine when his mother became engaged to Mr Warne, that he had been " a Father Figure for most of my formative years" adding that " my heart is broken"...

Who is Harry's ghostwriter, JR Moehringer - and how much did he make?

Apr 24,2020 3:50 am

By Robin Levinson-KingBBC News

He was a winner of America's most prestigious journalism prize, and his Life Story was turned into A Movie starring Ben Affleck .

He knows George Clooney , who reportedly introduced him to the subject of his latest work.

Yet JR Moehringer is not among the rich, royal and famous who make appearances in Spare, Prince Harry 's memoir.

Instead, Mr Moehringer helped him write it.

It is not his first foray into The World of celebrity Memories - he ghostwrote Andre Agassi 's memoir, Open, and collaborated with Nike co-founder Phil Knight for his autobiography, Shoe Dog.

His services - reported by Page Six in 2021 to have been - $1m (£820,000) to ghostwrite Spare - Come with white-glove, all-immersive service.

When he worked with Mr Agassi on Open, Mr Moehringer moved to Las Vegas so the two could spend 250 hours together. To get inside Mr Agassi's psyche, he read The Work of psychoanalysts Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung , he told the New York Times.

" Freud was a big help, " he recalled. " Especially 'Civilization and Its Discontents' and the idea of a death instinct. One of the pillars of Andre's personality was his self-destructiveness, and I realised that I had been pushing away the idea that this could be an organic part of his nature. "

But some of Mr Moehringer's insights into Mr Agassi and, now, The Prince - both complicated men with vexed parental Relationships - May have arisen from his own complicated relationship with his Father .

Mr Moehringer's own 2005 autobiography on the subject, The Tender Bar, discussed his childhood in Long Island being raised by a single mother, and finding a Father Figure in his Uncle Charlie and a pack of barflies at The Local watering hole.

His own Father - a Rock & Roll DJ in the early days of FM Radio - had abandoned The Family .

" The Radio provided this spotty access to him. So I was always trying to dial him in, " he told NPR's Terry Gross . " I didn't understand that he had a certain shift Every Day . So I'd sit out on the stoop. And I had this Transistor Radio . And I was turning the dial excruciatingly slowly, trying to find his voice. "

A 2021 film version of The Tender Bar produced by Mr Clooney cast Affleck as the aforementioned Uncle Charlie.

Before turning to book forms, Mr Moehringer attended Yale, And Then worked at the New York Times as a news assistant. That was followed by stints in Colorado and the Los Angeles Times, in 1994. In 2000, he won a Pulitzer Prize , about the tensions that arose when a ferry opened up in a small segregated community in Alabama.

In addition to the Tender Bar and his ghostwriting, he has also written a novel, Sutton, about Bank Robber Willie Sutton .

The Best ghostwriters do not Just Write well, they are able to embody their subjects, without ever sounding like a stand-up doing an impression.

" He's The Pinnacle , " book agent Madeleine Morel told The Observer . " I'm sure everybody aspires to be him. He's such a brilliant writer. It's very hard to ghostwrite a book and at some level never have it sound like it was Written By Somebody Else . "

But being among the creme de la creme of ghostwriters often means deliberately flying under the radar.

Around the release of Mr Agassi's Open in 2009, he told the New York Times: " The Midwife doesn't Go Home with the baby".



Source of news: bbc.com

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