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MOLLY: My mom has been such a great supporter of my work. My grandfather [author] Howard Fast and my father had this dynamic where my grandfather never wanted my father to succeed. He had a very mixed feeling about it, and he would always sort of tear him down. My mother has never, ever wanted but for me to be 20 times more successful than she. She is so unconflicted about that. That has really helped. Considering where she's come from, my mom is like the biggest mensch. Her parents were cold...
MOLLY: I feel like my mom was for many years a sex symbol--she wore the miniskirts and the long, blond hair and was so sexy. I never was really like that. I may have worn a fabulous outfit, but I just never had that persona of the great beauty that I think my mom does. In a lot of ways, I see the world as an overweight 13-year...
...bottom to start falling out of things," as one character puts it--and suffocating in a Stepford-perfect marriage. "I lived molded to the smallest space possible," she says, "my days the size of little beads that passed without passion through my fingers." When word arrives that her mom has cut off her index finger in a fit of religious mania, Jessie rushes off to take care of her, back to the tiny island off the coast of South Carolina where Jessie grew up. (She's secretly grateful for any excuse to get out of the house.) On the island...
Without missing a beat, I could retort, “Come on, Mom, this is the ’90s!” What can the little kids say now when their disturbed parents question the value of 50 Cent? “Seriously Dad, this is the ‘ohs’?” “Get with the ‘naughts’?” “For the love of God, we’re in the ‘ohzies’?” (Actually, there really...
Joan Cusack, a granola-type adult education professor, and Casey’s mom, plays the same brand of pushy mother, but on the opposite extreme. The feminist philosophies with which Cusack has attempted to indoctrinate her daughter are at times completely overstated, and will, of course, be easily sublimated...