The Baby Party

The Baby Party is a short story published by F. Scott Fitzgerald in Hearst's International Cosmopolitan (February 1925).

Plot

The story centers on a young couple, John and Edith Andros. They are the parents of Ede, their two-and-half-year-old daughter. Although the prospect of having a child to continue his name and livelihood appeals to the father, the day-to-day realities soon irritate him. Early on it is apparent this creates discord among the couple.

The daughter is invited to a party, which John begrudgingly attends. He ends up in a fistfight with another father when Ede injures one of the other children. At the close of the story he insists his wife apologize for the mess, and he holds his daughter while she falls asleep in his arms.

In the story the children have characteristics of adults while the adults act like children.

History

The Baby Party was written while Fitzgerald was in his infamous period of financial hardship. He was completing the final proof stage for The Great Gatsby and needed to support himself financially. It was later collected in All the Sad Young Men.

The Baby

"The Baby" is a song written by Michael White and Harley Allen, and recorded by American country music singer Blake Shelton. The song became Blake's second number-one hit, where it remained for three weeks in early 2003. It was released in October 2002 as the lead-off single to his second album The Dreamer.

Content

The song describes how a mother thinks of her children, especially the narrator. He describes being the youngest child in his family, and tells of various situations where he is referred to as "the baby" of the family. Later on, the narrator tells of receiving a telephone call to come to the family's home state of Louisiana, where his mother is dying (it is unclear whether she was in a local hospital or if she was at the family house under hospice care); however, he arrives shortly after she is pronounced dead. The narrator then laments the passing of his mother, stating "I softly kissed that lady / And cried just like a baby."

Music video

The video shows Shelton singing in a room with blue screens while watching flashbacks of his life and family. The roll of film also shows flashbacks and pictures of the narrator and his family. It was directed by Peter Zavadil.

The Baby (film)

The Baby is a 1973 American horror-thriller film, directed by Ted Post and was written by Abe Polsky. The film stars Anjanette Comer, Ruth Roman, Marianna Hill, Suzanne Zenor, and David Manzy. It tells the story of a social worker who investigates an eccentric family which includes "Baby", a 21-year-old man who acts like an infant. The film is considered as cult classic.

Plot

Ann Gentry is a social worker wracked with guilt about having been the driver of a car involved in an accident that left her husband severely injured. She gets assigned to a new case: the eccentric and mysterious Wadsworth family, and quickly takes a special interest the family's youngest member—a seemingly mentally impaired adult man in his 20's who doesn't have a name and is called only "Baby."

Ann wants to work with Baby, who still acts and is treated like an infant by his mother and sisters, thinking that with the proper treatment he might begin to behave more appropriately for his age group. The Wadsworth clan has been neglectful and abusive to Baby, and while Mrs. Wadsworth has been extremely overprotective of him ever since his father left shortly after his birth, she won't let another caregiver interfere.

List of Dynasty episodes

The following is a complete list of episodes for the 1980s television series Dynasty, in broadcast order.

Overview

Episodes

Season 1: 1981

Season One was shown on Mondays in the USA.

Season 2: 1981–82

Season 3: 1982–83

Season 4: 1983–84

Season 5: 1984–85

Season 6: 1985–86

Season 7: 1986–87

Season 8: 1987–88

Season 9: 1988–89

The Reunion

See also

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