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...Chelsea doesn't grow up believing food just magically materializes on her plate. They went to the grocery store together, one day after Hillary picked up Chelsea from school, to get peanut butter and cereal, only to find that they had insufficient cash and no checkbook. Lately the First Mom has been helping her daughter make the perilous journey from age 12 to 13 in a new city without the close-knit extended family and friends of Little Rock. The elder Rodhams had stayed in the Governor's mansion with Chelsea when her parents were away, and the death...
...door. "Don't go in," the note warned. "Dangerous alligator inside." No big deal, Reno's brother Bob told her: their mother, an alligator wrestler from way back, had been bitten while trying to cram a four-footer into a crate for shipment to the London Zoo. Mom was at the hospital having her hand sewn up. Janet and Bob found the offending alligator in the fireplace and, with the help of some local Indians, managed to send the beast at last on its way to England...
...refreshing it. With its Evelyn Waugh drawl, Social Disease is Rudnick's revenge on the less- than-zilch nightlife novels of the mid-'80s. So I'll Take It (1989) must be his anti-Portnoy. A Jewish boy who loves and enjoys his mother -- call the cops! Paul's mom Selma and her sisters Lillian and Hilda are the models for Hedy Reckler and her bargain-hunter siblings. The novel is "only" about a New England shopping tour, on which Hedy's son Joe hitches a ride. But if war novels can teach us about manhood...
...author knows this well. Last year, as Norman Rudnick was dying of lung cancer, the family gathered at his bedside. "Some visitors were very quiet and depressed, with their hands folded. But with my mom and my brother and me, I found that the more we laughed and behaved normally -- the more we acknowledged the awfulness but didn't let it become the rule -- the more it helped...
...bases shrewdly. It combines the ironic edge of Allen's stand-up comedy -- a sort of , macho flip side to Roseanne Arnold's beleaguered-housewife rants -- with traditional family-show sentimentality. It caters to the baby-boom audience while poking gentle fun at it (the kids are puzzled when Mom, played by Patricia Richardson, mentions such names as Edgar Bergen and Ed Sullivan). It toys with the sitcom format in ways both inventive (the little flourishes of animation that divide scenes) and annoying (the episode outtakes that run under the closing credits...