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...with women: his daughter is a rebellious flirt, his aging mistress carries herself like the ghost of swinging London, and his wife hexes the mistress with an evil spell concocted of mice and berries. When Uncle puts Omar in charge of a run-down Laundromat -- laundrette, in Britspeak -- the lad nicks a couple of packets of cocaine to finance a renovation; he calls the place Powders. Omar hires Johnny as his assistant, and the two fall into a tense, delicate master- slave tryst. In commerce and pleasure, Omar is a fast learner. How could he not be, with Uncle...
...boffo send-up of the President. Playing off the hit movie Risky Business, in which a high school senior throws a wild party when his parents are away, the skit had the Reagans at Camp David, leaving their son to look after the White House. Sure enough, a gyrating lad in undershorts dashes into the Oval Office wildly plucking a guitar and dancing like a man possessed. Wait a minute. That was no Tom Cruise playing the President's son. That was the President's son. "I thought it would stir things up," explained Ronald Prescott Reagan...
Perhaps one might think this viewpoint too harsh and wish to venture forth on the dreaded path to this film. Well, all I can say is, Godspeed m'lad or lass, you had better hurry to catch this one, and if you can stomach more than 40 minutes of this garbage, you're a better man or lady than...
...early decades of this century. A few of these, like The Divorce, relate the memories of a young boy whose rabbi father dispenses spiritual and practical advice to the teeming neighborhood around Krochmalna Street. Simply paying attention to the people who come to the apartment for help trains the lad to become a writer: "I was interested in people's talk -- their expressions, their excuses for wrong deeds, and how they twisted things to suit themselves." And he or someone very like him appears in other Warsaw stories as an apprentice author, hanging around the Yiddish Writers' Club, looking...
...Kern's day who scrambled to success out of tenements on Manhattan's Lower East Side, he was born in a comfortable midtown apartment, the son of a German-Jewish stabler. Young Jerry would never be the businessman his father hoped for. Sent out to purchase two pianos, the lad returned with 200. But he must have known his future would have more to do with sitting at pianos than haggling over them. He spent his 17th birthday attending a community-theater premiere of his own musical, a parody of Uncle Tom's Cabin. By the time...