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Religious support similarly fails. The women find little solace in the Jewish religious framework meant to console them. This unending search for consolation is portrayed with pronounced clarity and empathy, as shown by one woman’s struggle with cancer after losing her daughter...
Cassidy, the daughter of a local television producer, cut her teeth in the entertainment biz at the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, where she co-produced “I Get No Kick From Campaign,” the troupe’s 1999 musical production...
However, his advising capacities do not extend to romance and, when Tommy develops a crush on Melissa, played—in another interesting and nepotistic casting choice—by Williams’ daughter Zelda, he responds only with jealousy and resentment...
...entitled “Where We Come From,” features Precious, an impoverished woman in an anonymous third-world nation. (The odd name was chosen by Precious’s mother as a consistent and much-needed reminder that her love for her sons extended to her daughter.) Precious carries a child for three toil-filled years through many attempts to cross the border into the States, in order to produce the “nice big American baby” of the title...
...theme appears again in “Nadia,” when a humble science teacher becomes an international adventurer in search of a purchased foreign bride’s abandoned daughter. Once familiar with this hyperbolic style, where the conventions of our physical universe are stretched, or at least exaggerated, the real issues behind Budnitz’s stories are easier to approach...