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...What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1985), "I wanted to talk about my family, and about the horrendous family life of the barrios." Mom (Maura) sniffs glue, pops pills and burns the chicken. Dad sings German songs -- reason enough for her to kill the dull brute with a ham bone. By this time the viewer may feel like put-upon Mom or bashed-in Dad, so assiduously has Almodovar cataloged his atrocities. But the filmmaker had more cunning indiscretions in store...
When Lola Ham Minifie, then a Harvard admissions officer, learned several years ago that she had leukemia, she felt she needed a base of support...
Uniformly good singing graces this production. Peter Hopkins (Pish-Tush) stands out for his remarkable bass. Romantic leads Daley and Avery also offer excellent musical performances but could ham it up more...
Pumpkin soup, roast turkey, savory bread stuffing, gravy, baked ham, whipped potatoes, glazed squash, whipped turnips ("not a favorite, but...don't quote me."), garden peas, creamed whole baby onions, salad greens, cherry tomatoes, celery hearts, carrot sticks, radish roses, fruit salad, two kinds of olives, whole cranberry sauce, rolls, pumpkin, apple and pecan pies, cider, "autumn toddy," fresh fruit, mixed nuts and dinner mints...
...crossing the finish line just when most of the short-winded art hyped in the 1980s has gone dead on its feet. Both are, so to speak, redemptive artists, sustaining and enlarging a tradition of the expressive human figure that seems largely to have been colonized by ham-fisted ephemerids. When neoexpressionism arrived in the early '80s, it was as though an army of Bronze Age hectors had assembled, chanting hoarsely of sex, anxiety, death and egotism, leaving long tracks of slimy paint and broken crockery behind them in their progress toward the art centers of the world. The dull...