In Kim Newman's view, Hooper's presentation of the Sawyer family during the dinner scene parodies a typical American sitcom family: the gas station owner is the bread-winning father figure ; the killer Leatherface is depicted as a bourgeois housewife ; the hitchhiker acts as the rebellious teenager.

As a teenager, Mort had a personality and temperament that made him rather unsuited to the family farming business.

Having changed residence frequently with his family as a child, Gibson became a shy, ungainly teenager who often read science fiction.

When still a teenager, his father died and Ogden took over the family real estate business.

In addition to having a family history of Catholicism and Mormonism, Hanks was a " Bible-toting evangelical teenager " for several years.

After her parents divorced in 1950, she spent most of her childhood in Wilmington, North Carolina, with her grandmother until her family relocated to Queens when she was a teenager.

The ten remaining confused passengers are Brian Engle, a troubled, off-duty airline pilot traveling to Boston to attend his ex-wife's funeral ; Dinah Bellman, a young blind girl with minor psychic powers ; fifth-grade teacher Laurel Stevenson, who takes to watching over Dinah ; Nick Hopewell, a junior attache & " mechanic " for the British Embassy ; Don Gaffney, a retired tool-and-die engineer on a trip to see his grandchild ; Rudy Warwick, a businessman ; Albert Kaussner, a talented teen violinist heading to a prestigious school of the arts ; Bethany Simms, a teenager being sent by her family to rehab ; Bob Jenkins, a mystery author who acts as the voice of logic ; and Craig Toomey, an irritable investment banker on the verge of a psychotic breakdown.

As a young teenager, Banneker met and befriended Peter Heinrichs, a Quaker who established a school near the Banneker family farm.

The Smarts and their extended family persistently maintained a presence in the local and national media, in order to keep Elizabeth's name in the press, providing the media with home videos of her as a teenager and as a child, and created a website to serve as a resource center.

* Jan-Michael Vincent, actor, moved to Hanford with his family as a teenager, and graduated from Hanford High School.

New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, has visited there ever since he was a teenager and regularly vacations there with his family.

From youth, Giles was expected to follow the family tradition and become a Watcher, though as a teenager and young adult he rebelled, dropping out of Oxford University to experiment in dark magic and the rock music scene, until a bereavement brought him to his senses.

When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to Staten Island, New York, where he campaigned most of his career.

He was awarded his nickname Rio as teenager from an eccentric artist friend of the family who invented the name " Rio de Galaxis " for him in an " intergalactic youth ordination ".

Set in the Midwestern city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the series revolves around teenager Richie Cunningham ( Ron Howard ) and his family: his father, Howard ( Tom Bosley ), who owns a hardware store ; traditional homemaker mother Marion ( Marion Ross ); younger sister Joanie ( Erin Moran ); and high school dropout, biker and suave ladies ' man Arthur " Fonzie "/" The Fonz " Fonzarelli ( Henry Winkler ), who would eventually become the Cunninghams ' upstairs tenant.

A unanimous Court struck down St. Paul, Minnesota's Bias-Motivated Crime Ordinance, and in doing so overturned the conviction of a teenager, referred to in court documents only as R. A. V., for burning a cross on the lawn of an African American family.

While filming the movie in Arkansas, Remick lived with a local family and practiced baton twirling so that she would be believable as the teenager who wins the attention of Lonesome Rhodes ( played by Andy Griffith ).

As a teenager, he developed a reputation as a prolific liar given to telling fantastic tales about his family and personal life.

As a teenager Gigante became protégé of Genovese crime family patriarch Vito Genovese and Philip Lombardo.

His father died when he was a teenager ; Moinuddin inherited the family grinding mill and orchard.

These family planning practices also help impact the teenager and the infant because of the availability of healthcare and other resources that may otherwise not be offered.

As a teenager, he developed an interest in music and was encouraged in this regard by the composer Charles Ives, ( who sold insurance to Carter's family ).

Although his stepfather was related by blood to the German royal family, his financial situation was not good by the time Herbert was a teenager.

In an unrelated incident QPR were further rocked by the murder of Youth Team footballer Kiyan Prince on 18 May 2006 and, in August 2007, the death of promising teenager and first-team player Ray Jones in a car crash.

After fellow Family member Charles " Tex " Watson shot and killed teenager Steven Parent in his car in the estates ' driveway, Watson, Susan Atkins, and Krenwinkel entered the house, surprising all inside.

When Bertuzzi was a teenager, Albert survived a near-fatal car accident in which he was thrown from the vehicle through the windshield.

The bill was named after Laura Fortenberry, a teenager from Gaston County who died in a tragic car accident caused by a drunk driver with multiple DUI convictions.

A 1978 film sequel, International Velvet, was made starring Tatum O ' Neal as Sarah Brown, a young orphaned American teenager living in England with her aunt Velvet Brown ( Nanette Newman ) after Sarah's parents die in a car accident.

Her mother died in a car accident when she was a teenager.

A jury subsequently found in favor of the manufacturer of the car, but found that the second teenager and RKO General were both liable for the accident.

Pagels began attending an evangelical church as a teenager, attracted by the certainty and emotional power of the group, but ceased attending church after the death of a Jewish friend in a car wreck when her brethren said, unfortunately the friend hadn't been saved and so was in Hell: " Distressed and disagreeing with their interpretation — and finding no room for discussion — I realized that I was no longer at home in their world and left that church.

Đapić lost his mother in a car crash when he was a teenager, so he had to do manual labour while studying law at Osijek University.

Terry Labonte started racing quarter-midgets when he was 7 and won a national championship at nine before moving onto the local short tracks in a stock car as a teenager.

Gamble was as car mad as any other 40 ’ s teenager, but the South Florida winter season was a land of expensive European sports cars vs California ’ s hot rod culture.

Driven by car owner John Hammersley and teenager Andrew Dunlop, car # 34 was a late entry into the Series, with only eight races remaining.

At 9 years of age he built his first guitar from an empty car oil can and composed his first songs as a teenager.

A jury subsequently found in favor of the manufacturer of the car, but found that the second teenager and RKO General were both liable for the accident.

However, it has since been established that he did have a beige Ford Sierra Sapphire at the time and later reported it as having been stolen, just as another car he owned was reported stolen in the aftermath of the murder of Surrey teenager Amanda Dowler in 2002 ( for which he was convicted nine years later ).

Kandi was very close to her brother Patrick, who was older by 7 1 / 2 years and later died in a car accident when Kandi was a young teenager.

Delivered in August 1974, the car was promptly returned to Panther's UK premises, where it languished for a couple of years before being sold to the Crown Prince of Iran, Reza Pahlavi, as he was still a teenager.

Between 1988 and 1991, he raced for his father in the IMSA American Challenge stock car series, all while he was still a teenager.

The Miracle of Kathy Miller is a 1981 television movie which is based on the real-life story of a Scottsdale, Arizona teenager who was critically injured in a 1977 car accident.

She has been interested in the paranormal since she was a teenager, but her interest in UFOs may date to a 1985 car accident which led to her retirement.

When she is a teenager, she and her mother are involved in a car accident which leaves Carole in a coma.

When he asked for a car as a teenager, his father gave him one in pieces, which he had to assemble.

When she ignores Reggie's warning and crosses a deserted street against the still-operating signal light, she is almost run over by a sports car driven by Danny Mason Keener, a teenager her own age.