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...days of Roseanne Roseannadanna and "Jane, you ignorant slut!" are long gone. But to those who cannot remember them, the Saturday Night Live of the mid-1990s must seem like some flavorless leftover that Mom and Dad--those mockable aging baby boomers--refuse to discard from the fridge. Still, the fate of Lorne Michaels' legendary, revolutionary late-night comedy show continues to fascinate as almost no other show on TV does; what happens to it matters...
Magic realism dictates, moreover, that they be archetypes: Grandpa (Anthony Quinn) is a lusty old windbag; Dad (Giancarlo Giannini) is an uneasy martinet; Mom (Angelica Aragon) is full of soft romantic sentiment. They also, of course, have a fierce, primitive, mystical relationship with the land that nurtures them. The stranger must embrace the acreage before he can embrace their daughter...
...that sweet, dry July night in Manhattan, after his board approved creation of the biggest entertainment company in the world, Disney chairman Michael Eisner had dinner with his mom. Margaret Dammann Eisner has often been described as a world-class competitive woman, which suggests that her son's triumph last week owes something to genes. When young Michael was growing up in a Park Avenue apartment, his parents borrowed a Picasso from an art-dealer friend to hang in Michael's room. It was called Bullfight. The man who would come to influence, perhaps more than anyone else alive, what...
...packs up her daughter and heads home to the family horse farm and a confrontation with the past that made her what she is--a woman too emotionally guarded and self-denying for her own good. Dad (Robert Duvall) is the soft-drawling dictator of a prosperous domain. Mom (Gena Rowlands) is the perpetual placater, for whom niceness is a moral imperative. Big Sister (Kyra Sedgwick) has a tough but funny tongue and, one guesses, a damaged soul...
Mizrahi and Keeve were lovers during the filming, and the director has made wise use of their intimacy. Interspersed with the narrative are clips from home movies made during Mizrahi's boyhood, anecdotes from his mom and shots from favorite movies and TV shows. Mizrahi adores Mary Tyler Moore, and when the new collection is a hit, he throws his hat in the air just the way Mary Richards does in the MTM credits. This is the first time out for Keeve as director, and he does a poised job of presenting a warts-and-all portrait--Mizrahi the show...