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...Mama, help me. I'm losin...
...play's plot follows the lives of a Black family living in Chicago's Southside ghetto. The family includes Mama Younger (Stephanie Wilford), her single daughter Beneatha Younger (Frettra Miller) and married son Walter Lee Younger (Kerrick Johnson) Living with the family are Walter's wife Ruth (Diane Cardwell) and son Travis (Dean Headley). They live in an apartment where Mama and her husband settled years ago, originally as a temporary abode for their small family. As the play opens, the family is waiting for insurance money coming from the death of Mama's husband. Tensions are high, because Walter...
Best of all, however, are Stephanie Wilford as Mama and Kerrick Johnson as Walter Lee Wilford's performance is sterling. She carries the posture walk, face, and delivery of her character with no apparent effort Kerrick Johnson, although his character has fewer emotions to express, shows himself equal to Wilford's vital assurance Johnson has an easier time displaying strong emotion then Cardwell, and he has no problem holding himself when he is not talking...
They have practiced their roles for a lifetime. And now in Aurora, filming in Italy, Edoardo Ponti, 11, is making his acting debut opposite his magnificent mama Sophia Loren, 49. Naturally, the lad plays Loren's offspring in the movie, which-to keep things in the family-is being produced by his father Carlo Ponti, 70. How did the little cherub do, Mama? "He looks like an angel, but he's really like a devil," says Edoardo's glamorous costar. "Already he criticizes my acting." Meanwhile, the Pontis are working on plans for another family project...
...Mama Malone is as proficient at making pasta as Maggie is at concocting stories. The voluminous star runs a TV cooking show 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...