Word: mother
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...promptly gets rolled by her in contract negotiations, is as sharp and modulated a satire of Hollywood hucksterism as anything this side of David Mamet. Unfortunately, the play doesn't quite know where to go after that. The focus shifts to Sheena's surly, pill-popping, wheelchair-bound mother, who is outraged (not very credibly) at her daughter's job on feminist grounds and vows to stop the production. Not a bad idea - turning Mom into a real-life counterpart of a horror-film stalker - but her character (at least in Lusia Strus's over-the-top performance...
...internet, photography was used for mostly personal reasons—pictures for a family photo album, for example. You might share the pictures with extended family or neighbors, but you didn’t leave the album in the local hole in the wall for everyone and their mother to see. Even the most invasive tabloid was limited by the necessity of sending a professional photographer to capture any newsworthy event.These days, many of us voluntarily do the hard work for the media. CNN has a virtual army of millions of camera phone-wielding viewers across the globe. Even without...
...contemplates his life, before moving to hand-held shots that follow him as he runs after terrified skateboarders in the parking lot. “Observe and Report” attempts to squeeze in a few moments of genuine warmth into the mayhem, but Ronnie’s alcoholic mother (Celia Weston) sucks them dry like she does her whiskey. Before Ronnie goes out on a date, she tells him about her first date with his father, reminiscing, “He was so handsome... I knew right then and there that I would fuck him that night...
Haven delivered an acceptance speech focused on the imperative to serve, citing examples from Mother Theresa and Frederick Douglass...
...doing some filming out on Long Island, and couldn’t make it up for the event. So instead, the students patiently absorbed Haven’s words of worldly wisdom concerning positive action (yada yada), marveled at his erudite quotations from sources as varied as Mother Teresa and Frederick Douglass, and eagerly clung to the hope that the star couple would make a delayed appearance. They didn...