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...mother, a maid, and his father, a gardener, had raised their family in San Jose, California. Though they had never visited the East Coast before June of 1968, their son's cabled orders kept them from relaxing enough to enjoy the trip...
...example, here comes the hotel's slow-witted handyman George Utley (Tom Poston) to unveil the latest product from his workshop: a wooden replica of Mount Rushmore featuring the face of Mr. Green Jeans. Stephanie Vanderkellen (Julia Duffy), the pampered Wasp princess who works at the inn as a maid, goes through the motions of dusting, but she is concentrating on putting her TV-producer boyfriend Michael (Peter Scolari) in his place, which is at her feet groveling. And just when a little order threatens to break out, in stomps a scraggly trio of backwoods brothers, two of whom never...
...world, even this desiccated one, can be both spooky and funny. And so is Alexander's unshakable belief, stoked by Otto, that the fate of the planet depends on his "lying with" the ethereal Maria. Is she Eve or Lilith, Mary or Mary Magdalene? Or just a maid who understands that even a dotty master deserves the rite-of-last-night? Like any man trying to take any woman to bed, Alexander offers her a two-faced come-on: If we make love we can create a new world; if we don't make love I'll kill myself...
...YOUR ice cream while it's still on your plate," Sabina the maid tells us early in Thornton Wilder's The Skin Of Our Teeth. And this would seem to be good advice to follow in a play that shows the cyclical and precarious nature of life at such a fast pace that the Ice Age, the Depression and the invention of the alphabet are simultaneous events...
...married at the G, but everyone knew one of the reasons for the blossoming romances: the Tattler, the house newspaper that treated everyone as an enticement. When Canadian Novelist Mordecai Richler visited what he called "Disneyland with knishes," he remembered how, thanks to the paper, "the painfully shy old maid and the flat-chested girl and the good-natured lump" were transformed into "sparkling, captivating" Barbara; Ida, the "fun-loving frolicker"; and Miriam, a "charm-laden lass who makes a visit to table 20 F a must...