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...federal budget deficit shrinks by nearly one-third, as Australian publishing magnate Rupert Murdoch purchases The Congressional Record. "Strom's Mom Scalded Tots," reads the banner headline of the first issue...
Every parent quietly notes the occasion, but when William Arthur Philip Louis, the future King of England, turned six months old, Mom and Dad invited the press and TV cameras. Inundated during her travels around the country with requests for more baby photos, Diana, Princess of Wales, 21, convinced his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II, 56, that in addition to her traditional Christmas TV broadcast, there should be one of Sweet William to satisfy the interest of his future subjects...
...poshlost, as the Russians say, an overheated lunge toward the profound, to think of Casablanca in terms of deeper allegory. Still, it is hard to resist delving for Jungian archetypes, primal transactions of the kind that lurk in, say, the Oedipus story (Here's looking at you, Mom...
...This time they worked too hard. In an attempt, perhaps, to place a discreet distance between confession and comedy, they allowed the tone of their script to become jarringly uneven. Barnard Hughes and Jessica Tandy, as Paula's parents, are repositories of senile pathos; Audra Lindley, as Richard's mom, is a shtik figureggressively annoying the next, with sutures provided by background music that never lets the viewer discover a mood on his own. One can still savor the moments when Reynolds and Hawn display their easy strengths: Burt's shrugged-off sexiness and decent vulnerability, Goldie's ditsy-pixie...
Seated so far apart, at the distant points of a triangle, the Nurse chatters away while Lady Capulet (Thania Papas) conveys all the glamorous awkwardness of a pampered preppie mom, and Juliet Claudia Silver) sits in gawky adolescent silence...