Word: mamita
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...role as Honore. He sings "I'm Glad I'm Not Young Anymore" as though he believes the lines even less than we. That he appears to lip-sync this and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" seems all the sadder because he can perform "I Remember It Well", with "Mamita" (Taina Elg) with too much meaning: we all remember another Jourdan and another Gigi all too well...
Then comes Gigi. If Gaston and Honore want to treat women as little more than the stuff of shopping escapades. Mamita and Aunt Alicia (Betsy Palmer) will gladly help design the set While Honore keeps busy tutoring Gaston in the rules of the game--for status value, little can rival driving a spurned lady to attempt suicide Mamita enlists Aunt Alicia to perform daily finishing lessons seemingly as de rigeur as piano lessons for the varsity social climbers of New York in the 80's, or anytime for that matter...
Jourdan's leading lady in 13 Rue De L'Amour, Taina Elg as Mamita likewise upstages Jourdan here. In fact, Jourdan seems at his best when he and "Mamita" reminisce their past affair. Jourdan looks almost pitiably reassured to here her say. "How strong you were, how young and gay A Prince of Love in every...
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