Word: moms
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...wasting a moment on irrelevant detail, yet knowing when to linger over the important ones. In this brisk vignette, Allen himself plays Sheldon, victim of a kind of transcendental Jewish-mother joke. It would spoil the fun to say how he transforms a stock figure, a yammering, smothering mom (Mae Questel, who is splendid), from a private torment into a public menace, but it is literally magical to behold...
...spin to the usual boy-wants-to-be-ballerina plot, Tom Collins aspires to be a florist; Mom insists he become a cop. Hence ensues a barrage of typical Pudding groaners about tulips, mums and pansies. Agent Tess Tosterone leads a deft rendition of the song-and-dance, "Police Don't Eat the Daisies," with her brutal kicks and clumsy spins...
...came home and informed my mother that it was a matter of life and death that I went to the mall and found the perfect Valentine's gift. I didn't tell Mom why I needed the present, and she graciously pretended not to know...
After three hours at the local shopping center, I still hadn't found it. A music box? Too expensive and showy. A pin? Too cheap and meaningless. Mom was getting impatient and I was running out of alternatives...
...Hope's son Zachary, a Harvard sophomore, is used to seeing his mother as a trailblazer. "Things like this are not really out of the ordinary," he says. "A lot of things my mom has done were unprecedented for women...