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...life," she boasts, "began at three." At twelve, she banded other children together in the illegal "monkey brigade," whose task was to sneak political messages past British soldiers. One visitor to Nehru's Allahabad home was gravely informed by his daughter: "I'm sorry, but Papa and Mama and Grandpapa are all in prison...
...bizarre climax when Horst takes Catherine to a party at his mother's villa. In his mother's bedroom, crowning a marriage proposal to the girl whose favors can be had for the price of an espresso, he generously covers her nude body with some of Mama's 10,000-lire banknotes. The door opens. In sails Bette, rococo-eyed, jewels ajangle, a one-woman spectacular. She sees her darling at play, drops into her deep-fried Southern drawl and issues what must be the last word in ultrapermissive Momism: "Please put the money...
...John Murrell was educated, and thought big. The son of a prostitute, he was taught by Mama to rob her clients while she had them in bed. One day, Murrell robbed his mother and set out on his own. He became a slave snatcher...
...sounds about as Italian as Menasha Skulnick), Steve proposes. To everyone's amazement except ours, Natalie rejects him. A wedding without love would be intolerable. Footloose Steve, feeling his duty discharged, ducks out the back door leaving Natalie's relatives in anguished pandemonium. You never heard so many Mama Mias...
...money, Dodge's favorite pastime seems to have been writing wills and codicils (at least eleven), and for a finishing touch he provided that the last one would be void if his mother outlived him. Naturally she did, and then led the charge of the litigant brigade. Though Mama is worth $65 million herself, she misses the $10,441,289.42 that she says he borrowed. Muttered his harried lawyer, Douglas Leo Paterson: "I'll bet he's up there now laughing at me. He said he'd make just as much trouble for me after...