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...whether some man was living on her allowance. When she made $25 from theater work or a few off-and-on dollars for being a cosmetician in a mortuary, she would stubbornly report the money to the welfare people "because I didn't want my daughter seeing Mom lying." The welfare people would stubbornly subtract it from her next check. "Of course by that time the theater money would be gone." She admits that the system did what it was supposed to do: it propped her up when she needed it. But dignity wasn't part of the process. "Yeah...
...carom through the Big Apple. This time it's a send-up of bizarre life-styles as seen through the hungry eye of Pamela Trowel, advertising director of Hunter's World magazine. Pam is miscast not only in her career but also as a sex object and surrogate mom of Abdhul, a stray who looks like a child but talks like a grownup. The plot? Forget about it. The characters? Instantly forgettable. It's Janowitz's hyper-real prose servicing a cartoon vision that still marks her as a talent in search of an adequate subject...
...There is a different psychodynamic here, without any question, but the difference is one of small degree. If I had said to "Mom" -- it was actually "Mia" that she called her -- I'm in love with my secretary, there would have been some version of the same thing...
...responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York was their movie set, Madison Square Garden their all-star playground, the chic eatery Elaine's their kitchen. Central Park was their shared backyard. From their respective apartment windows on opposite sides of the park, they would...
...between Elvis and the Beatles, two corporate names ruled rock 'n' roll: Spector and Scepter. Phil Spector's over-the-Top-40 sound has often been memorialized; now THE SCEPTER RECORDS STORY is related in a 65-song set on three CDs. Owned by Florence Greenberg, a New Jersey mom, the diskery made its rep with girl groups (the Shirelles) and treble rousers (the Isley Brothers, the Kingsmen). It then officiated at the marriage of gospel and pop, with Dionne Warwick selling peerless Burt Bacharach ballads. The set includes many savory hits and some obscure gems: Bacharach's prime plaint...