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TV Q and A

Inman, David

2009

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Q: I read an item in your column about the movie \"On Borrowed Time.\" That was one of my favorites too, but I was under the impression it was called \"Death Takes a Holiday.\" I must have seen that one too, but confused the titles. Can you tell me about \"Death Takes a Holiday\"? Q: Whenever the conversation turns to reality shows I remember a show from the 1970s in which in-home TV cameras recorded days in the lives of a family in California (where else?) for all the viewing public to see. I can't remember the family's name, but it seems that the show had the same name - like \"The Bradleys\" or \"The Robertsons.\" The whole thing was an experiment in which the family voluntarily participated. After the show ended, so did whatever had held the family together up to that point. I recall reading that the parents had divorced, and I believe at least one of the sons ran into trouble with the law. I know I'm not imagining this, but no one I've mentioned it to remembers the show. Can you fill in the details for them (and for me)? Thanks! There were two follow-up documentaries: 1983's \"An American Family: 10 Years Later\" and 2003's \"Lance Loud! A Death in an American Family,\" which detailed his death from AIDS and Hepatitis C in 2001.

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