Word: mama
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...equally red-hot songwriters who have turned out hits for such diverse talents as Peggy Lee, Judy Collins, Ella Fitzgerald and the West Coast rock group called Three Dog Night (which moves up to No. 1 on the Billboard chart this week with a single of Newman's, Mama Told Me). Newman and Nilsson much prefer to sing their own material. Self-involvement, however, did not prevent Harry from devoting his latest RCA album (Nilsson Sings Newman) to Randy's songs...
...Bloody Mama is a lurid little number featuring Shelley Winters doing her smothering-mother thing as the nefarious Ma Barker. You can tell she's the mama because she is older than just about anyone else in the cast...
Presumably she should know better. A hapless and bloody rehash of Bonnie and Clyde, Bloody Mama features Shelley as the head of a small criminal band of psychopathic wastrels, four of whom are, incidentally, her sons. There are heavy-breathing suggestions that the family that preys together plays together. Mama rewards her sons after a hard day of busting heads or robbing banks by letting one of them bunk with her for the night. The fact that everyone gets his just deserts in an insipid shoot-'em-up in the final reel will come as no surprise. Producer-Director...
Scientology is growing. According to the Cambridge Center, the worldwide movement now has over three million members and increases six fold every year. The list of prominent Scientologists includes actor Stephen Boyd, Salvador Dali, Donovan, Mama Cass. Leonard Cohen, blues singer John Hammond, the Incredible String Band, two of the Gateful Dead, science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury, and others. If Scientology is actually the bridge to a world of super-things, there seem to be some exceptional people on that bridge now. You do want to be on the winning side, don't you? It's later than you think...
...show might have built more impact from a brazen dynamo in the role of Mama Minnie Marx, àla Ethel Merman in Gypsy. As it is, Shelley Winters ambles through the part rather than animating it. She seems preoccupied, as if she smelled something burning in the oven rather than...