"S ince when are you interested in Raiders Wide Receivers?”'

“Since I met him at a bar a few weeks ago. Sorry to interrupt your business. Love you, Dad.”

The sound of Monday Night Football abruptly ended. Caydance hung up quickly. But, as she knew it would, the telephone rang immediately. Her father, she guessed, was still recovering from the filmmaker she'd brought home last Christmas. And a conversation -- in which her mother did not mention the art historian who had joined them for lunch in San Francisco on Mom's annual Dad-is-at-Spring-Training-in-Tampa week -- was rare.

studio icon "It's not a relationship. I just met him", she said to the phone. "But I'd appreciate if you did not mention this to Mom."