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...been driven by ambition from his earliest days and encouraged by his doting parents to think highly of himself. Born in 1856 to an impecunious Jewish family in the Moravian hamlet of Freiberg (now Pribor in the Czech Republic), he moved with the rest of a rapidly increasing brood to Vienna. He was his mother's firstborn, her "golden Siggie." In recognition of his brilliance, his parents privileged him over his siblings by giving him a room to himself, to study in peace. He did not disappoint them. After an impressive career in school, he matriculated...
...original Gaia was a femme fatale. Hesiod, a Greek from the 6th century B.C., tells her lurid tale in The Theogony. Born of the state of chaos, Gaia the Earth immaculately conceived her first brood of children, among which was the Sky, Uranus. Earth and Sky "united," giving birth to the Titans, the last of whom was Chronos, Time. Feisty Chronos, seeking to overthrow his father, turned to his mother for help. Gaia, exhausted by repeated strenuous labor and angered by Uranus' tyranny, supplied her son a sickle with which to castrate his father, her husband. Mother Earth proceeded...
...Soon, students trickle back to the House to nap or to attend sports practices, a cappella rehearsals and Phillips Brooks House Association meetings. After cleaning, sweeping, mopping and incinerating, Antonio finishes shoveling the courtyard as a light snow begins to fall. The returning "children" remind Antonio of his own brood. His daughter (age 13) and two sons (ages 8 and 6) will imminently arrive home from Dorchester public schools and fend for themselves until Antonio returns...
...beware. While tweens might go for A Bug's Life, and pious adults line up for The Prince of Egypt, neither film will have the urgency of a small voice saying, over and over, "Take me to Rugrats!" In the Pickles family, as in nearly every other TV brood, the kids run things. The next few box-office weeks will determine whether the same applies to reel life...
...Glover would be the only other star. Newton, the Anglo-African actress who illuminated Flirting and Jefferson in Paris, came to the first script reading with an early, teasing hint of her character's mannerisms; her regal beauty explains how Beloved can cast a spell over Sethe and her brood. In the role of Baby Suggs, Beah Richards, who 30 years ago won an Oscar nomination for playing Sidney Poitier's mother in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, serves as both Greek chorus and black preacher; her sermons give the film heft and life...