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Waters' spiffy new farce, Serial Mom, mocks this frenzy. It's about a suburban matron (Kathleen Turner, nicely balancing agitation with propriety) who has a caring dentist husband (Sam Waterston), two fairly normal teenage kids -- and an urge to kill anyone who affronts her notion of decency. If someone should chastise her children or date a fast girl or refuse to recycle, Mom goes maniacal...
...readers who are delighted when Cora signs her letters to Em "Mom Sequitur" or who laugh at the joke "What are the saddest two words in the English language? What party?", Delusions of Grandma is an entertaining read. But at $22.00 and a two-hour reading time, even the staunchest Fisher fan would be wise to wait for the paperback...
...crisis point with young actors where they lose it, about halfway or three-quarters of the way through. We kept waiting for that to happen, but it never did." In fact, Campion recalls the only time Paquin got "a bit teary" was the first day of shooting when her mom had to return home; an ice-cream break solved the problem, and filming proceeded as planned...
...nice analytical stab, but totally off the mark. Mom and Pop, rather than students themselves, often deal with their term bills: and for those who do handle their own term bills, the UC should understand that at humanities-leaning Harvard, most student have lost the ability to subtract $16.67 from $24000. They are still capable, how-ever, of writing letters to Dean Epps--although, we suspect, they be a bit longer than necessary...
...speaking of siblings, that's where my family is the true "peculiar institution." Four sons. Can you believe it? Four white males. In the public forum of The Crimson's Opinion page, I demand that my parents create equally within my sibling pool. Mom and Dad, get cracking, you've got at least four females...