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DIED. JOLIE GABOR, 97, Hollywood matriarch; in Rancho Mirage, California. Known as Mama Jolie, she brought her exotic, accented daughters Zsa Zsa, Eva and Magda to the U.S. from Hungary in the 1930s and presided over their ascent to Hollywood celebrity...
...suffered from chronic heart disease and diabetes and, like many activist atheists, feared that at her demise, religious relatives might commandeer her body and give it a Christian burial (or, as Kerns remembers her putting it, "stick a crucifix up my a__"). Faced with a sudden health crisis, the matriarch could have arranged to die unmolested and given Jon and Robin permission to jump ship. Such a blessing might have been welcome. "Jon told me numerous times that he was pretty fed up with the whole goddam thing," says Via. "If he had the opportunity to steal a million...
...FARROW She portrays herself as the Misunderstood Matriarch in a life-with-Woody memoir...
Thelma, the strong matriarch, has had to deal with a severe mother-in-law, a cheating husband, sterility, medicine men and more. Each step in her growth is treated like a gigantic leap of mankind, then is pushed aside for yet another revelation. After a few years of childless marriage, for example, Thelma's mother-in-law becomes concerned and takes action, asking "the old man to come." After that summoning, there is a break in the text, as if an earth-shattering meeting, or story-changing event is about to take place. The next paragraph contains a description...
...with later play dates as well), is indeed a rarity. It depicts a family of Native Americans, a culture seldom if ever explored on TV outside Discovery-channel documentaries. Displaced from a reservation to a gang-infested California town, Mollie (Sheila Tousey), the widowed matriarch, tries to quell her rage with drink; but the story ultimately belongs to her eldest daughter Justine (Deeny Dakota), who is battling her own history of despair. The teenager has never known her natural father, but when she finds him, her pain is deepened: he is also the father of the only gentle suitor...