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...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...
...optometrists -- specialists who examine eyes and prescribe corrective lenses -- offer some form of eye-improvement therapy, also called vision training. The premise is simple: while eyesight is largely determined by genetics, seeing is an acquired skill, developed through practice, much like walking or swimming. Says Richard Kavner, a New York City optometrist: "The goal is to improve faulty connections between the brain and eye muscle." Common exercises include walking on a balance beam while reading a chart, completing connect-the-dot pictures and touching points in patterns that are flashed rapidly on a screen. Such training is designed to enhance...
...talented actress with whom Allen is not sleeping, but who nevertheless appears in this film, is Julie Kavner, best known to the public as Brenda Morganstern of TV's Rhoda...
...Recently Kavner, who plays Joe's mother in Radio Days, made an appearance at a publicity luncheon in Boston, where she described working for a man who has long been an idol of hers...
...apartment, a job and a man-and miraculously found all three. She has also found a supporting cast that rivals Mary's: Harold Gould (Pop), who helped sharpen The Sting; Nancy Walker (Ma), a former stage comedienne whose timing could be used to set observatory clocks; Julie Kavner (Rhoda's sister Brenda), a fresh face with an oversized appetite and talent to match. Rhoda has even been given a fiance, Joe (David Groh). On Oct. 28 they will exchange vows, rings and one-liners in an expanded one-hour special starring Mary and Rhoda...