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...mother is a nightmare Yiddisher mama, a shrieking, swooping, loony harridan who plies her son with brimming trays full of food. Papa is a smalltime Italian hood who looks like an eggplant with a two-day growth of beard...
...Mama and Papa war around him, but Michael stays safe from the battle by losing himself in his cartoons...
...April wind blew harshly and rain pelted down, but Paris' unruly students turned out by the scores of thousands last week to renew their protest march against the government. DEBRÉ, YOU BRIBED THE WEATHER BUREAU, said one slogan. MAMA, MAMA, YOUR SON IS IN THE STREETS, said another. And again: DEBRÉ, YOU BASTARD, THE PEOPLE WILL HAVE YOUR HIDE...
Randy Newman. Randy Newman's a weird dude, what with songs about burning rivers, and fat freaks, and an epic about slavery, as well as Three Dog's own Mama Told Me Not to Come. He's got the warped perspective I've approached, but never duplicated. Forced, to sum him up, I'd say this: If he was my friend, and I had to introduce him to someone, I'd say: This is Randy Newman, one of the five weirdest people I know. His critical (not commercial, by any means) success has to be attributed to his imagination, coupled...
Although her clients are mostly "new" Hollywood, Mengers, 36, is a throwback to the more flamboyant, flesh-peddling days of the studio moguls. At 5 ft. 2½ in. and 160 Ibs., usually billowing in a sea of muumuus and caftans, she is sometimes seen as a cross between Mama Cass and Mack the Knife. She has the soft, breathy voice of a little-bitty girl, the vocabulary of a mule skinner and the subtle approach of a Sherman tank. She often compares herself to Eve Harrington, the calculating and ruthless climber in All About Eve. In fact, a character...