Word: mother
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deedee leaves the household and dance school in the capable hands of her husband and accompanies Emilia to New York, intent on supervising her climb to stardom. The impressionable protege soon takes a strong liking to her mentor Emma (who happens to be Emilia's godmother), much to her mother's dismay. Deedee has enough reason to be jealous of Emma for professional reasons without a twist of emotion-charged rivalry for Emma's affection...
...Soviet's penchant for bed-hopping deals a rude blow to the naive Emilia, who is further jolted when she learns of her mother's dabbling in adultery with Rosie (Anthony Zerbe), an old conductor-buddy who is currently between marriages. Emilia drowns her sorrows in a sleazy Manhattan bar one afternoon before a matinee, affecting a Russian accent while two good ol' boys from out of town try to pick her up. Her inebriation leads directly into an all-too-contrived comic device wherein Browne totters about the stage during the performance while mentor Bancroft winces in the wings...
...Inner Healing, amount to some 185,000 hard-cover copies. Her estimated $160,000 income is turned over to Stapleton's nonprofit religious corporation, Behold, Inc. Jimmy's other sister, Gloria Carter Spann, 51, reportedly received a $50,000 advance to compile a book of her mother's letters from India, Away from Home: Letters to My Family...
...competition of other males, his reign over a harem or troop is usually short, and his genetic drive dictates that he impregnate the females as quickly as possible. As Hrdy explains: "By eliminating infants in the troop that are unlikely to be his own, a usurping male hastens the mother's return to sexual receptivity and reduces the time that will elapse before she bears his offspring...
Back in Muncie, the electrician, the mother and the five-year-old boy are having problems. The boy has been kidnapped by the aliens, the mother is told by all her friends that her son probably fell in the river, and the electrician's wife has loaded the kids in the station wagon and gone to stay with her sister. In their mutual despair, the mother and the electrician find each other. Somehow, they know that the government is pulling everybody's leg about the toxic gases, and so they head off to Wyoming...