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...coarsen the culture, accelerating America's highly anticipated slide into the Sodom-Gomorrah metropolitan area. Survivor: The Australian Outback proved to be a huge letdown. TINA WESSON, sweet part-time nurse from Tennessee, took the million dollars, but sensitivity flowed from the other finalists too: COLBY DONALDSON (weepy mama's boy), RODGER BINGHAM (weepy schoolteacher), ELISABETH FILARSKI (weepy outback nymph) and KEITH FAMIE (just plain weepy--he broke down on live TV to propose marriage to his girlfriend). "I wanted it to be a kinder game," said Wesson, of the unfortunate lack of backstabbing. "I told [series creator] Mark [Burnett...
...Freud said something about the mama's boy having the "feeling of a conqueror, that confidence of success that often induces real success." Mothers are often president-makers. But complications arise...
...when Lyndon Johnson was in the first grade in the Hill Country of Texas, he was asked to read a poem to his classmates and their parents. The poem he chose was "I'd Rather Be Mama...
...best of all, Montijo's cheer parodies the chorus of Nelly's immortal song E.I.: "Andele, Andele, mama, e-i, e-i, Ti-jooooooo! / Who's whackin...
...fictional presence. She can be blunt, circa the 1870s--"There is a lot of Indian in her nigger"--and sometimes poetic: "Mothers grow flaccid, rich in babylove, each baby taking some of the mother's beauty as if the baby knows it needs to protect its babyself by making Mama less kiss-daddy pretty." Why shouldn't the loyal slaves enshrined in the magnolia myth of GWTW, novel and film, be given their say? "Alice Randall has an absolute right to criticize Gone With the Wind," says Martin Garbus, the Mitchell estate lawyer. "But she can't do what...