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Playwright Arthur Kopit-who is best known for his hit, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad-is now busy working on a new screenplay. Its Kopital title, which is presumably half the creative battle: Good Morning, Berenger! How's Everything Today? Not Bad? That's Good...
Another creative triumph is the commercial-within-a-commercial based on the filming of an ad for "Mama Magadini Spicy Meat Balls." All that Jack has to say is, "Mamma mia, that's-a spicy meatball!" Trouble is, every take is fouled up: Jack blows his lines, forgets his Italian accent. At one point a fiery meatball scorches the roof of his mouth and all he can do is gasp. Enter Alka-Seltzer. Finally, after a perfect take, the prop oven door falls off, and the tired director sighs, "Cut. O.K. Let's break for lunch...
...Mamma (Fran Lopate) plays her wordless role with the benign warmth of melted mozzarella. The ageless Mediterranean resignation on Jack's face is so perfect that it is hard to believe he can look any other way. Two weeks ago, he took an ad in the show-business trade journal, Variety, showing him grinning. The headline asks: WHO'S THE GUY IN THE ALKA-SELTZER COMMERCIAL? IT'S JACK SOMACK...
...with a relatively narrow range of human experience, as is true of Philip Roth, 37. There is no Faulkner, no Hemingway, no Fitzgerald, no O'Neill in our lost generation. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test may well be our Great Gatsby, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad our Desire Under the Elms...
...MOVED in on a Sunday, with a bright blue sky overhead and not a soul in the dorm. The only sign of life was a small notice taped to the hallway where the boys lived which read, "Mamma Sara, third floor for sewing, brownies, ironing, and tea and sympathy." Never one to turn down a little tea, and in need of a little sympathy I became Sara's first customer...