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Armed with her new "handle" (nickname) and her newest toy, a mobile Citizen's Band radio, First Lady Betty Ford went to Texas last week on a campaign trip for Husband Jerry. "You got First Mama. There's a lot of Smokeys on my front door," said Betty, radioing from her Secret Service car with all the aplomb of a veteran trucker. (Translation: "This is the First Lady. I see plenty of policemen in front of me.") Though she probably hopes to pick up a few votes for her husband from the 11 to 12 million CB operators...
...villain in the show is the Mama who, by devoting herself to Christianity, has sold out to the White Man. She attempts, through occasional beatings and one painfully long evangelical scene, to indoctrinate her daughters with her anti-Black attitudes. Despite the banality of Mama's lines, Cheryl Wright gives the character convincing force by her energetic portrayal. Her features contorted with evangelical fervor, she propels the play through some of its shakiest moments...
...good guy in the show is the Daddy/Boyfriend, played by Tony Chase. Although alcoholic and finally impotent against Mama's ascetic whiteness, this character elicits sympathy by his simply-felt expression of pride and physical desires. Like Wright, Chase battles his way through a dense forest of triteness to create a sense of powerful emotions held barely in check...
...incontestably correct. Among the items not to be found in standard almanacs but present here: summaries of every game played in the Little League World Series; a biography of Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck's miserly uncle; pop psychohistories of selected U.S. Presidents, including Truman ("Harry was a 'mama's boy' "); 16 pages of fact and gossip about the Academy Awards; Eartha Kitt's idea of utopia and a summary of W.C. Fields' will, which left his mistress $25,000, two bottles of perfume, a Cadillac and a dictionary...
...like a one-man Greek chorus. "While it's happening, I see the humor of it all," Larry tells Sarah after his mother's first visit to his Village apartment. And when he heads out for ultimate success on Sunset Boulevard, the tenderest thing he can tell his tearful Mama is "You're a funny lady, Ma." Larry did not need New York to corrupt him; detachment and glib posturing must have come easily to him even before he bought his first authentic-looking French beret. Still, the image would be all right if Mazursky did not spoil the effect...