Word: mama
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Melancholy Mama...
...Mitchell a role worthy of his baritone. Gypsy, last revived in 1989 with Tyne Daly, is about to return once again, primarily so that leading Broadway baby Bernadette Peters can continue to have gainful employment. Expect some critical carping about whether she's right for the brassy role of Mama Rose--but is there a more risk-free idea on all of Broadway...
...known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison sentence for shooting a stranger, PayCheck--whose other hits included (Don't Take Her) She's All I Got and I'm the Only Hell (Mama Ever Raised)--became a born-again Christian. His music, he once said, was always "about life and situations. Situation comedies and situation life...
...chorus to her show-stopping number from the blockbuster film Chicago, Queen Latifah’s jail warden character, Mama, belts out, “When you’re good to Mama / Mama’s good...
City of God is the latest film in the vital new Latin American cinema, and the fiercest. Next to it, Amores Perros and Y Tu Mama Tambien seem like slouchers. The storytelling and filmmaking vigor never lets up. The camera takes a bullet's point of view as it ricochets toward a victim; the tangled history of a gang's hideout is shown in two dozen supple dissolves; a bank heist is replayed to clear up a murder mystery. Because the director has brought his monsters and their world to teeming life, City of God conquers your scruples and stokes...