Cruz's trust seems daughterly, but, insists the director, who is 57, with a shock of gray hair, "I don't like when she looks at me like a paternal figure.
Separated by an ocean from her only child, she has no one to provide the solace and daughterly ministrations she longs for.
Teen-Ager Junie Keegan asks the questions of "Pops" Whiteman, and treats his answers with the proper daughterly respect.