Word: kavner
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Most parents, however, do not aspire to careers in stand-up comedy. Or actually rise in the field as Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) does in This Is My Life. Dottie, God help her, decides that a polka-dot wardrobe will be her trademark. She blithely uses material in her act from the life she shares with her daughters, teenage Erica (Samantha Mathis) and 10-year-old Opal (Gaby Hoffmann). And, not least of her sins, she falls in love with her agent, Arnold Moss (Dan Aykroyd), who nervously chews Kleenex. Gross...
...Kavner, a Woody Allen favorite and the voice of Marge Simpson, has the right moves onstage and off. She's all those cable-comedy-club performers brazening out their terrors. And all our working moms doing the same thing. It's a terrific performance, brash but always in touch with a certain vulnerability...
...scripts unless she became a director -- which she has just done, in the witty and poignant This Is My Life, which opened the Sundance Film Festival last week and will be released commercially Feb. 21. The script, which she wrote with her sister Delia, treats a comedian (Julie Kavner), caught between the conflicting demands of career and kids, who uses her daughters' lives in her routine. This kind of family cannibalism is something the Ephron sisters grew up with...
...lives in print looks like exploitation; but it was more an attempt to contain one's life, as it spun out of control, by telling it as a story. When Nora took personal troubles to her, Phoebe would say, "It's all copy," a lesson repeatedly preached by Kavner to her children in This Is My Life. When Phoebe came out of the shadows for a lucid moment on her deathbed, she said to Nora, "You're a journalist, take notes...