Word: goodman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother him? Need you ask? Will these two succumb to romantic entanglement? Well, no. Despite nicely managed temptation, they avoid it, and credit goes to David Seltzer for that intelligent choice. And for a movie that is full of terrific comic material and well-cast second bananas (John Goodman as Lilah's befuddled husband, Max Alexander and Mac Robbins as ne'er-do-well comedians...
...main upholder of the traditional nuclear family this fall is Roseanne. Pudgy comedian Roseanne Barr plays a working-class mom grappling with a dull factory job, three hyperactive kids and her lazy but lovable porker of a husband (John Goodman). Barr's sullen sarcasm -- a cross between Erma Bombeck and Alice Kramden -- is a cry of revolt against years of cheery sitcom parents. Says Mom after the kids run out the door: "Quick, they're gone. Change the locks...
When we see Lilah's family life, we understand why she runs away to the club every night. One particularly awful morning, Lilah battles the tangles in one daughter's hair while making French toast, trying to locate lost socks and arguing with her husband, John (John Goodman). Goodman gives a solid but dislikable performance as he grills his wife about her nocturnal whereabouts and lambastes her for being late to prepare dinner...
...these true confessions? Although police are skeptical, experts say many of the calls are probably legitimate. "Desperate people can be uncensored and unguarded at their moment of crisis," says psychologist Gerald Goodman of the University of California, Los Angeles. Though the confessions contain an element of playacting, most callers want support for admission of sins. And listening to the confessions of others makes people feel better. "It normalizes your sense of guilt over transgressions to realize hundreds of others are doing it too," explains Philip Zimbardo, a professor of psychology at Stanford University...
...phenomenal response? "It's the extreme privatization of entertainment," says psychologist Jerald Jellison of the University of Southern California. Experts believe the anonymity of the telephone offers a psychological safety valve to the secret keeper, who feels compelled to unburden himself but fears vilification. Says UCLA's Goodman: "It's the interpersonal parallel of a one-night stand...