Word: moms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hobbs Takes a Vacation. Dad (James Stewart) has a voice like a defective windshield wiper. Mom (Maureen O'Hara) is a handsome illustration of what Oscar Wilde meant when he said that women as a sex are "sphinxes without secrets." Son (Michael Burns) is a TV idiot, who blinks like a mole in daylight. Daughter (Lauri Peters), upset by her teeth braces, keeps her face knotted in such a wooden expression that she could pass for a ventriloquist's dummy. It would be better if these people had never met, but in this family-situation formula comedy they...
Bowling alleys, which have transformed themselves into highly respectable meccas of organized togetherness (don't say "alleys," say "lanes"), are featuring billiard rooms (don't say "pool," say "pocket billiards"), where Mom and the kids can click away in an air-conditioned, Muzaked atmosphere as wholesome as mah-jongg...
...poolrooms have a "dirty antiseptic look-spots on the floor, toilets stuffed up, but the tables brushed immaculately, like green jewels lying in the mud." The Brunswick Corp. of Chicago, largest commercial U.S. billiard equipment manufacturer, is determined to change all that, has produced some innovations aimed straight at Mom; e.g., tables have been contoured along Detroit lines with chrome doodads and two-tone coachwork. But the feature that will bring the loudest howls from Gleason and other reactionary cue sticklers is the new look of the table-topping: it now comes in blue, beige, tangerine and gold. Green...
...Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...
...Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad, by Arthur Kopit. An evening of surrealistic foolery on the topic of why Mom is a witch. Goofy, oomphy Barbara Harris is the Lolita of off Broadway...