Word: matriarchic
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...fictional families in recent memory seem more unhappy than the Catchprices, who own a General Motors dealership on the outskirts of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Gran Catchprice, the matriarch of this ragged clan, is approaching her 86th birthday and toys with the idea of blowing Catchprice Motors to smithereens; she has a stash of gelignite and knows how to use it. Her daughter Cathy wants to leave the family business and go on the road with Big Mack, her country-and-western band. Son Mort refuses to sell cars and enjoys a none-too-warm paternal bond with...
...epitome of southern womanhood who perished at the end of Gone with the Wind, than with Scarlett. As a result, Ripley's Scarlett contains a good deal of Melanie within her. Scarlett buys Ballyhara, the O'Hara family's ancestral Irish home, where she becomes "The O'Hara," family matriarch...
...whom she has met a few times at a local movie theater. Poor Bella cannot get the words organized and turns to her nephews, who know the secret and awkwardly help. Her sister sits in polite confusion. Her brother, a petty gangster, impatiently tries to bolt. The clan's matriarch -- the mother whose approval is what the retarded woman most wants and will never get -- glares in stony silence...
...cast members are persuasive individually but not yet as a family, although that may come with time onstage. As the matriarch, Irene Worth, 74, lives up to her legendary reputation. But the play belongs to Mercedes Ruehl as Bella. With unrelenting energy, she veers from Gracie Allenesque comic illogic to mistrustful tantrums and wistful dreams. Simon and Ruehl have conceived her as forever adolescent, fated to be poised all her life on the edge of expectation but unable to cross over. If Simon's terrain is the border country between laughter and tears, Bella...
...England" who shows up at the Collinwood estate and sets about relieving various relatives and townspeople of their red cells. Producer/director Dan Curtis (who did the original show) has given the series a dark, somber look and a high-toned cast that includes Jean Simmons as the Collins family matriarch...