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...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
During the weekend, the Toronto students will hear a panel discussion on "American Foreign Policy and Disarmament." They will also see a performance of "Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad," and attend a banquet. Sunday they will lunch at Holmes Hall. A speech by Radcliffe's President Bunting will officially end the festivities...
Unfortunately, the picture also has a plot that attempts to solve-now really, fellows-a five-sided triangle: 1) mama (Capucine), 2) papa (Holden), 3) a great white hunter (Howard), 4) mama's darling (Pamela Franklin), 5) mama's darling's darling (Zamba). The great white hunter lures mama and her darling to his farm in Kenya, and for awhile mama really enjoys the back to nature bit. But when the kid falls in love with a lion, mama figures they have both gone too far back to nature, and ought to go back to the States...
...Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit, mobilizes college humor and surrealistic props to launch a bizarre offensive against poor Mom. As a girl with a yen for Mama's boy, Barbara Harris ranges from clowning grotesquerie to candied simpering to erotic voracity, with unflawed skill...
...tiger of the title (Alvin Ailey) is an inarticulate rebel, snarling and moping about the house. Mama pins her faith to a framed telegram, a next-of-kin death notice for another son killed in World War II, that hangs on the bleak wall of her shanty on the outskirts of New Orleans. It is proof that the boy, who she feared would end in jail, died a hero's death instead...