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Malcolm: It was inspired by a very true story that happened in my husband’s family. He did have an aunt whose parents went to Shanghai and completely reinvented themselves. It was Hemingway who said all good fiction is autobiographical—I didn’t realize until the novel was finished how much...
...aunt was a photographer at The Crimson—she once took a picture of the president of the Harvard Republican Club unwittingly sitting in front of a painting of Chairman Mao, and she was nearly booted from the paper. My father didn’t much like this place-—his only untainted memory of Harvard was scoring tickets to Game Six of the 1975 World Series. My mom was in the first class of women to be admitted to the yard, a liberated lady in the era after The Pill and before AIDS...
...your inspiration for Madea--Flip Wilson's Geraldine, Mrs. Doubtfire or Sanford and Son's Aunt Esther? She's based on all of those people, plus Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence characters. If I hadn't seen a man put on a dress, I wouldn't have had the courage to do it. The inspiration comes from my mother and my aunt. Madea is the PG version of them...
...newswoman Gail Huff, was told on the show televised yesterday, that she would now be “going to Hollywood.” Multiple fan sites featuring Brown’s pictures and performances are now accessible online. Cindy A. Huff, Adams House dining services staff member and aunt of Brown, said that her niece has always been good at singing. “She sang at the Patriots game,” said Huff, who has worked at Harvard for almost 23 years. Huff said that after it became public knowledge in Adams that her niece was going...
...Nanny McPhee’s physical flaws disappears. To enlarge the slim plot into a full-length movie, Thompson—who also wrote the script—throws in a half-baked storyline involving Mr. Brown’s financial and marital problems. When wealthy Great Aunt Adelaide (Angela Lansbury) tells the broke Mr. Brown he must marry or will lose her financial assistance, he settles on Ms. Quickly (Celia Imrie), a horrid social climber. The children and Nanny McPhee must band together to rid themselves of these two terrors. The film is extremely visually arresting; its creative team...