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...prize in a bitter contest between Lila (Robyn Nevin) and Vanessa (Wendy Hughes) two of the four sisters who remain after the death of Sinden. PS's mother Lila and her working class husband George have been raising PS in a run-down area of Sydney for six years when glittery, pertained Vanessa arrives on a ship from England eager to sweep him up and make a proper English gentleman of him Lila and George cannot fight her because she is moneyed and can offer the child far more than they. The compromise they work out-that PS will live...
...fascinating one While Logan is surprised and touched to meet his son, he is unable to deal with the concept of fatherhood. For her part, the frigid and calculating Vanessa knows little about mothering: from the first, she treats the boy like an adult, to the dismay of Lila and George, who want only to protect him. Negotiating with them early in the film for the rights to PS Vanessa asks the boy to leave the room. "Why?" he asks, Lila begins. "So we can discuss the lovely surprise," but Vanessa cuts her off "Because I asked you to very...
...interplay between these two opposing approaches to children becomes another central theme. For instance while George and Lila insist on referring to PS's mother as "Dear One." Vanessa tells PS to say "my mother." Some of the most important...and visually beautiful--scenes are shot in the wild and grassy cemetery where Sinden is buried Unwilling to explain the mystery and loss of death to the boy. Lila and George tell him Sinden is with the angels. Vanessa sets him straight...
...DIED. Lila Acheson Wallace, 94, ebullient, strong-minded co-founder and -owner of Reader's Digest, with her late husband DeWitt Wallace, and one of America's greatest philanthropists; in Mount Kisco, N.Y. The couple met in 1920 when he was struggling to start his new venture, and she began married life stuffing solicitation envelopes in a Greenwich Village basement. As the Digest quickly prospered, she kept her editorial influence largely indirect. But it was she who took the lead in the childless Wallaces' vast (more than $60 million over 30 years) charitable efforts. Personally overseeing many...
...from the kitchen of her walk-up apartment in Brooklyn. When she brays, "We'll be right back," the actual show also breaks for a commercial. But the spice of the device is soon overwhelmed by Mama's overcooked material. The failure is not the fault of Lila Kaye, late of the Royal Shakespeare Company (she was Mrs. Squeers and Mrs. Crummies in Nich olas Nickleby). Kaye plays Mama with manic élan, but she is giving flesh - kilos of it - to an ethnic stereotype that should have gone out with the organ grinder and his monkey...