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...pursues her high-powered career in interior design. Thus, out of mutual need, but without Miranda's conscious participation, Mrs. Doubtfire -- that is to say, Daniel in old-lady drag and affecting a Scots accent -- is born. In this role, Daniel not only brings order to a fractured household; he also brings a new orderliness to his own life...
...MEMBER OF THE JAPANESE IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD ANSWERING CRITICS WHO SAY THE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS ARE SQUANDERING PUBLIC MONEY ON A NEW 100-ROOM PALACE
...latest in the line of adolescents in oversized bodies who have populated boxing. In fact, what distinguishes him is an early, singularly mature decision to be, as he says, "different." In this course he relied in part on his mother Dorothy, who alone ruled an unruly household of 13 children in a New York City war zone with such edifying comments as, "If you go to jail, I'm not going to visit you or send you money," or, "You want this African soupbone?" when a spanking was in the offing...
...Household Saints" starts by revealing the small goings-on in a caricatured Little Italy with charming, trenchant detail. A butcher's son, in an agonizing move, bets his only ticket to the Met in a pinochle game with his friends; old women squeeze large, ripe eggplant, and tell tall tales of how they made soup out of clam shells stolen from the back door of a seafood restaurant; a sausage-maker chants an ancient rhyming Italian recipe while she kneads meat. From here, reality glides quickly away with no emerging theme to fill the void, and the movie, like Teresa...
Brattle Theatre. 40 Brattle St., Harvard Square. 876-6837. "Household Saints" at 3, 5:20, 7:40 and 10 p.m. with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 12:40. Through Thursday, Nov. 11. This film examines the changing American culture through three different generations of Italian-American women, and each woman's unique relationship to faith and family tradition...