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...waiting for a free breakfast. As the month wears on and parents' incomes run out, the line grows longer. Some children have not had dinner the night before and complain of a headache. "This is the only real meal that some of them get," says cafeteria worker Doris Tabbs -- "Grandma," as the children know her. She calls them her "babies" and often pays for treats from her own pocket...
...find..." What did I find? All neurons were called to attention. I find, I find, it's very blue and like the sea which is at home oh childhood was nice I must phone home grandma's ill and the cat's on fire so who will water the plants...
...graduated to stand-up after listening to comedy albums his father would bring home from his job at Commodore Music, a record label and store in Manhattan. For visits to Grandma's house on Thanksgiving, Mom packed a suitcase with costumes: the three Crystal Boys would do Ernie Kovacs' Nairobi Trio and take turns as Mel Brooks' 2,000-Year...
Many anxious inner-city parents send their children to live with relatives out of state. Unfortunately, many of these kids simply start new gangs, rather than new lives, in Grandma's neighborhood. "They've just transported the cancer," says Sergeant McBride, who has a large map on his office wall covered with red and blue flags showing how the Los Angeles Crips and Bloods have metastasized across the country...
...superb tragicomedy in which Neil Simon unflinchingly revisits the time in his childhood when he and his brother had to live as humbled supplicants among richer relatives (an episode more sentimentally imagined in his 1983 Brighton Beach Memoirs). In Grandma Kurnitz (Irene Worth), Simon brilliantly plumbs the sadistic soul of stoic, rugged individualism...