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...funeral. There is a white bucket in the corner with a live frog he caught a few weeks ago. "He liked to fish," she says. "People think he was a monster, but he was nice to me." She says she saw him regularly; he called her Reen instead of Mom, and, she admits, "he was always blaming me" for his problems. "They could have saved him and rehabilitated him," she insists. "When he started taking cars, they should have put him away then and given him therapy...
There were those who were missing Yummy last week, those who had seen the child and not the killer. "Everyone thinks he was a bad person, but he respected my mom, who's got cancer," says Kenyata Jones, 12. Yummy used to come over to Jones' house several times a month for sleep-overs. "We'd bake cookies and brownies and rent movies like the old Little Rascals in black and white," says Jones. "He was my friend, you know? I just cried and cried at school when I heard about what happened," he says, plowing both hands into...
Raymond (Jeremy Davies) is the ideal student, the ideal son. So when his bullying, philandering dad tells the boy to give up a prestigious summer job to care for his mother (Alberta Watson), he does so. Mom, who has broken her leg, is a dish, and David O. Russell's Spanking the Monkey soon reveals itself as The Graduate with one more taboo dropped. Instead of being seduced by his girlfriend's mother, Raymond eliminates the middle-woman and emulates Oedipus. . The tone here is so dry that many viewers refuse to see this smart-looking film as a comedy...
Upshaw grew up in a suburb of Chicago. "Mom, who was a schoolteacher, played the piano," she says, "and Dad, who was a minister, played the guitar. I started singing with them and my older sister when I was five -- songs by Peter, Paul and Mary and other folk stuff." Their group was called the Upshaw Family Singers. Her youthful idols were Barbra Streisand, Joni Mitchell and Aretha Franklin, and she dreamed of a career in musical theater. At Illinois Wesleyan University, though, she studied voice with her future father-in-law, David Nott, and he introduced her to classical...
...welfare mother makes an ideal scapegoat for the imagined sins of womankind in general. She's officially manless, in defiance of the patriarchal norm, just like any brazen executive-class single mother by choice. At the same time, she's irritatingly "dependent," like the old- fashioned, cookie-baking mom. But unlike her more upscale sisters, the welfare mom is too poor and despised to mount a defense. And unlike Anita Hill, she has hardly ever, in the entire debate, been invited to speak...