Word: moms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...blind boy has only recently moved into the Haight-Ashbury district from a plush San Francisco suburb, where Mom smothered him with heaping portions of maternal concern. A guitarist and songwriter, he is anxious to make it on his own, maybe put together a nightclub act. Everyone is impressed with his songs and with his matter-of-fact courage about his handicap. "You're a beautiful person, inside and out," gushes the girl next door, who rapidly graduates to roommate status...
Leave it to Mom to bust up the match. She tells her son he can only get hurt, and brazens the girl into leaving because she's "not what Don needs." Neither, most emphatically, is Mom, who nevertheless turns out to be a real heroine. Realizing after all her conniving that it is time her boy became a man, she departs in a cloud of humility, leaving Don to fend for himself and perhaps convince his paramour to return...
...practically sends him semaphore signals over the shrimp cocktail. He invites her to a rendezvous -at his mother's apartment, which is empty during the day while his mother works. Barney supplies his own bottle of J & B and buys his own glasses in Bloomingdale's so Mom won't discover any traces. "Are you married?" he asks, trying to make chitchat. "Mr. Navazio assumes I am married," replies the businesslike Elaine. "I assume what I want." Unfortunately for purposes of the tryst, the only thing Barney can assume is a defensive, feckless...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
...positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...