Word: mason
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forging checks, Sally (Debra Margolies) has been sentenced to a six-year term at the Massachusetts Correctional Institute in Framingham. However, only two years into the sentence, a sympathetic parole board grants her freedom at 21. Life outside smacks of trouble. She returns to an estranged husband, Sonny (Edward Mason), and a four-year-old child who has been told her mother was "in the hospital." Room and board no longer come courtesy of the taxpayer's dollar. Finding it impossible to make ends meet, she turns to Sonny for help, and he, needing capital to start a laundromat business...
...plays a sensitive mother as well as the crude, masculine game of dozens. Her experience as a stage actress, primarily at the Stage One Company, lies beneath her effortless virtuosity. Her Sally is highly feminine, but not stylized--a pig-tailed, funky adult who speaks low and jivey. Mason is a naturally-grinning blond whose well-practised mannerisms reek of reflex criminality: the archetypal detriment to Sally's hope for a clean life...
...response to the letter of October 15 by Alan L. Jackson, Errol T. Louis, Abner A. Mason and Brian M. Weber--members of the William J. Seymour Society--we, too, as Christians of African descent, pray that Blacks will also heed the biblical wisdom imparted by Proverbs, Chapter 25, Verses...
...justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream. --Alan L. Jackson --Errol T. Louis --Abner A. Mason Jr. --Brian M. Weber Members, the William J. Seymour Society
Indeed, one of the many discomfiting things about Only When I Laugh is the contrast between Mason and Kristy McNichol, playing her daughter. The youngster has an ease and grace (and a lovely physical presence) that make her scenes with Mason strictly no contest, and grant the film such warmth and human interest as it contains. Maybe Simon should consider adopting her. -By Richard Schickel