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...John Hughes, but with his own road map. No Molly Ringwald needed; Ricki Lake, in her motion picture debut as Tracy, is the dream image of every girl who has ever craved that eighth Twinkie. No teen realism here, just a romp through the pastel homes and matching mother-daughter outfits of a more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress (it was the drag diva's seventh and last Waters film; he died a month after...
...Over the objections of Edna, who is uncomfortable in her own capacious flesh and believes that her daughter will be rejected by the snobby TV kids, Tracy answers a "Corky Collins" open call for dancers when Brenda is exiled. She arrives late at the TV station - "I thought we'd never get here! Darn bus wreck..." - and is grilled by the Council of Corky regulars. Tracy's spunk and terp-ability appeal to Collins (Clarke Thorell), who has the radical notion that "It's time we put kids on the show who look like the kids who watch the show...
...husband (the water temp for socks, Christmas gifts for the next two years, advice to kiss the boys even when they grow tall). Unlike Jill, though, Kate is a bit player in her own household, which is run by a nanny wielding absolute power. Kate doesn't know her daughter's best friend or how much her son weighs. She's a victim of reverse intimacy; her associates soak up so much time that she stays in touch with her real friends through increasingly heartfelt messages in which she cancels plans yet again. Like many professionals who leap a social...
...whole thing got out of hand," he says. "This is my mother's resting place, not Graceland." The sons also objected to the sale of "Audrey Hepburn" chocolates, lavender from her garden, pots of homemade jam from local fruit and paintings of the house. Françoise Meier, whose daughter went to the village elementary school with Ferrer, says the charges of commercialization "are ridiculous. There's nothing trashy about what we sell at the museum. And nobody profits from tourism. We have no shops, and the only restaurant is in a place no tourist would find." Though no compromise...
When Maria Diaz emigrated from Portugal to Switzerland 11 years ago, she was hoping to find a better world for herself and her infant daughter. But she soon discovered that life in Switzerland wasn't a box of chocolates. The 32-year-old Geneva office cleaner and single mom has been struggling to make ends meet on ?2,000 a month, a meager wage in a place where her one bedroom apartment alone costs ?800 a month. "Some months, after buying food and paying rent, utilities and health insurance, I have ?30 left in my pocket," says Diaz...