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'Jay Kelly' and 'Sentimental Value' are both about fathers, daughters and fame

The American comedy Jay Kelly and the Scandinavian drama Sentimental Value are funhouse mirror versions of the same story about celebrities and their daughters.

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Bob Mondello, who jokes that he was a jinx at the beginning of his critical career — hired to write for every small paper that ever folded in Washington, just as it was about to collapse — saw that jinx broken in 1984 when he came to NPR.
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