The Father/Daughter Celebrity Tango

By now, you've no doubt gotten the word about Hannah Montana, a.k.a. Miley Cyrus, daughter of "famed" musician Billy Ray Cyrus ("Achy, Breaky Heart" 1992). You know that concert tickets for the teen's gigs have been going for hundreds of dollars as mothers fight at Ticketmaster over the "gotta-have-them" pastes which allow their pre-teen daughters to scream their lungs out for a couple of hours as if they were seeing The Beatles come to America or getting their hands on the latest Harry Potter book (and DON'T EVEN tell me about Dumbledore again!). This in spite of using body doubles during the concert so Miley can change costumes and in addition to things like a mother in Texas lying that her daughter's father was killed in Iraq just to win tickets to a concert. You know all of this unless you've been living in, say, Montana... or Iraq. I really thought that once "Wierd" Al Yankovic made a parody of Billy Ray's song that we'd heard the last of that crap...not so. He and his daughter sometimes perform together, and appear on TV together as well. This might seem to be too much, but, really, they're just the next in a long line of father/daughter duos who have hit the big time in show biz. To wit:

Francis Ford Copola used his daughter Sofia as a baby in "The Godfather" as well as in "Godfather, pt. III." While she never really made it as an actress (babies can be SO temperamental), she did receive an Oscar for her screenplay "Lost In Translation."

Nat "King" Cole and his daughter Natalie recorded "Unforgettable" as a duo in 1991...of course, Nat had been dead since 1965, but still...it garnered three Grammies.

Elvis and Lisa Marie figured to cash in on that idea and remastered "In the Ghetto" a song I absolutely hated the first time I heard Elvis sing it. The new version proved to be even less stellar which is why YOU'VE never heard it. Still in all, he WAS the KING.

Frank and Nancy Sinatra recorded a song called "Something Stupid" in 1967 when they were both alive, and it was number one with a bullet, probably due to Frank's "connections" if you get my drift.

Of course, we all remember Ryan and Tatum O'Neal in "Paper Moon," but since they aren't speaking anymore because of his hijinks (according to Tatum), we'll just give it a mention and drop it.

So, you see, the Cyrus duo is merely the next in a line of family entertainers. I'd be just as happy not knowing about them myself, but that would involve living in Montana or Iraq, and I'll pass on that.