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...inevitability of some form of American assimilation that, while it is still taking place, we no longer have a good metaphor for. We keep denouncing the melting pot, but something of the sort keeps going on,” said Sollors of Lam. Lam detailed his resistance to his mother??s attempts to bind him to his culture by reading letters received from relatives left behind. “What did I do? I skimmed. I skipped. I shrugged,” read Lam, drawing laughter from the audience. The theme of angst also pervaded Lan Tran?...
...primarily concerned with the dynamic between Lucy, her mother Sarah (Ryan), and the personal issues they each tackle.Sarah, a lonely suburban housewife, suffers from breast cancer and struggles to make a substantive connection with her eldest daughter. Lucy, your typical too-cool-for-school teenager, resents her mother??s apparent lack of power and emotional strength.While Carter is supposedly the figure who brings the two women together, he really doesn’t do all that much. With a few stern words to Lucy and a couple not-so-memorable walks with Sarah, Kasdan expects us to infer...
...half in jest. And that notwithstanding, the vice president has acquired enough perspective in the last few years that he’s not inclined to blow political issues out of proportion. Sundquist’s first months at Harvard came with a sizeable dose of contingency, as his mother??s bout with cancer—following on the heels of other family illnesses—rendered it uncertain whether his time would not be better spent at home. Although the disease did recede, allowing him to continue his studies, he says the events of his past have...
Despite being the daughter of a former Miss Rhode Island, Sinnott said she didn’t plan on following in her mother??s footsteps until recently...
...like maniacal crazy people,” she says.BEAN TOWN AND BEYONDPoehler, who graduated from Boston College (BC) in 1993, grew up in Massachusetts and says the city was where she got her start.“I kind of started improvising there at a sketch group called My Mother??s Flea Bag, which was an improv group at BC, and so that’s kind of when I first got the improv bug, so I have to kind of thank BC for that,” she says. She would later...