Word: lalas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lala Levy (Jessica Hecht) is a socially awkward young Jewish woman, back home in Atlanta after an aborted semester at the University of Michigan. In between decorating the Christmas tree and ogling the Hollywood celebrities in town, she is trying to get a date for the big event of the Jewish social year, known as Ballyhoo. Reacting in various ways to her travails are her widowed mother; the unmarried uncle and widowed aunt who live with them; and her prettier, more socially assured cousin, home from Wellesley...
...Louis sweetness in the way this clan faces its small crises. But Uhry adds vinegar in the form of a sharply observed portrait of upper-middle-class Jews in the pre-World War II South. Theirs was a tricky dance of assimilation and accommodation, in which older families, like Lala's, scorned newer immigrants, represented by the kid from Brooklyn who has just gone to work for the family business. Uhry juggles a lot of elements with no evident strain: creating a believable family that seems both quirky and emblematic; exploring issues of Jewish self-hatred; giving hints...
Bostonians still hate the Lakers. Kurt Rambis was recently cut from Lala Land's team. Think any real Beantowners shed a tear for the man "who looks like he crawled out of the sewer" (to quote the late, great Johnny Most...