Word: mimi
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Mark's parents, played by Mimi Kennedy and Scott Paulin, try to get through to their "troubled" son with the overbearing "I remember when I was your age" speeches. Paulin has such lines as, "what a lech he is," meaning Mark after he is found with Nora. Kennedy's character responds, "well he must have learned it from his father" (immediate parental embrace and kissing follow). Such an inane portrayal of adults fits with the 14-year-old audience the writer was aiming...
...film's rather homely Mimi (Evelyne Didi) isn't the fragile beauty of Puccini's opera, but she turns out to be just as consumptive. Her romance with Rodolfo is halfhearted; in a movie preoccupied with hunger, the couple's appetite for each other is depressingly dull. Musette (Christine Murillo) is so marginal to the film's action as to be an extra...
Despite fundamental plot weaknesses, the film is visually stunning, and, more than the absurdity, this is its saving grace. It is not really about the tragic love of Rodolfo and Mimi, or even about the life of dissolute artists. The film's only true heroine is Paris, the gritty, alienating city of the post-war years. To achieve this quality of romantic seediness, Kaurismaki fled the Left Bank for the working-class suburbs of Malakoff and Ivry-sur-Seine...
Teaching and learning are the keys for ex-convicts to adjust successfully to mainstream society, according to Mimi Silbert, president of the Delancey Street Foundation, in a speech last night at the Cronkhite Graduate Center...
...Leary's lineup stars with junior Rachel Lerner in the stroke seat, senior Co-Captain Kristin Stoddard in the seven seat, followed by sophomore Tilde Hajek, Harber sophomore Kathryn Patton, junior Sasha Foster, senior Wendy Svatek, senior Rachel Green in bow and senior Mimi Smith in the coxswain's seat...