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...Funniest Movie Ever The Flesh Eating Mothers...
...Frank O'Hara was the funniest man in the universe. Never ever met anybody so funny, with his putdown epigrams. I knew Frank very well. We were in Eliot together, and he gave the best parties in Eliot. Big cocktail parties. Everybody drank all the time back then. We used to have these teas inviting people and it was just pitchers of martinis. We didn't have any beer; it was just martinis. When Dylan Thomas came, he didn't like martinis, he didn't like gin. He said it was the sort of thing made in a chemistry...
Perhaps Mansfield's funniest contention is that "gays eventually undermine civilization." His wording leaves room for confusion as to whether he refers to homosexuals as a group or as individuals. Does Mansfield mean that every homosexual, even the well-intentioned ones, will (after making a youthful contribution to the arts) "eventually" turn in their old age to society-undermining subterfuge? Or does he mean that every civilization starts off with a certain number of homosexuals and that, "eventually," through and recruiting, that number surpasses a saturation point and the civilization topples? Whichever, it's clear that Mansfield doesn't really...
There are only five characters, all women, all mothers or daughters or both: MaDear (Raffini), the not-so-senile great-grandmother who provides some of the funniest lines of the play, despite continual rantings about the "man," her decesased husband and the past; Lola (Valerie Stephens), the grandmother, preoccupied with the many men in her life; Maydee (Diane Beckett) the mother, a middle-class academic waiting for a tenure offer; Maydee's daughter Vennie (Valerie Stephens), who has just dropped out of college and wants to be a singer; and Raisa (Ethelyn Friend), Vennie's white "best friend," who plays...
...actual wedding banquet, the focus and highlight of the movie, contains many of the funniest scenes, as Wai-Tung and Wei-Wei try to successfully survive their prolonged ordeal. Despite Wai-Tung's efforts to keep the wedding as simple as possible, his parents succeed in making it a huge affair with hundreds of guests who sing, dance, gamble, eat and drink into oblivion. The clothing and scenery during the banquet are so exquisite subtitles...