Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first obligation was to explain just what had happened - and what had not - but the story had other important dimensions. The serious moral questions raised by conception in a laboratory are considered in a separate story; a second analyzes the differences between conception of a baby outside the mother's body and the technique of cloning...
...sounding a lot like Alexander Scourby, Charles Cioffi deserves praise as the senator, though the role remains confusing and enigmatic. We get a clearer picture of his long-dead father. The daughter (Shaine Marinson) is cipher, and the aide (David Rasche) only a little better. This leaves the mother as the sole rounded character, and Irene Worth never fails to hold out interest--whether singing, preparing food, looking out the window, lying on a couch, or blowing out 17 candles...
...mother bought him a tape recorder when George was in the eighth grade and he started recording short comical skits--"news, sports, all the stuff that established my comedy"--and visions of radio and music and disc-jockey slick distracted Carlin from his studies. He eventually quit school...
...pain in the ass. They had me doing solid geometry, or algebra, and third-year Latin was not pleasurable. See, I had no father. My father died when I was young so I had no iron discipline as a teenager, and when I became a teenager, my mother became a pushover...
Carlin harbors no intentions of decaying, of joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...