Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Olympia Dukakis plays the mother (yes, she is related to the governor) as a said woman who asks the men she meets one important question, "Why do men chase women?" The answer, she concludes, is fear of death. Dukakis is made up to look much older than she is, and she acts as if she is miserable. Maybe she is, but this does not really fit in with the film's levity...
Technical mastery of anything seemed unlikely when Stankard was a youngster. "I was a dreamer. My mother wanted me to be a dentist, but I flunked all my grades." His father, who was a chemist, suggested scientific glassblowing; that appealed to the young Stankard, and he enrolled in a technical school. After graduating he spent a decade working in industry, making glass instruments for laboratories. But the job became increasingly repetitive, and "I would entertain myself by making glass animals and flowers. Then I began experimenting with making paperweights...
...twelve and already skilled at fending off the men who want to buy her. "I may be little but I have a brain," she tells Kozol. He likes her. "She's alert and funny and . . . I enjoy her skipping moods," he writes. One day he learns that after her mother's welfare check failed to arrive, Angie was caught stealing food from the supermarket and was brought home in handcuffs. "When I came to this hotel I still believed in God," the mother tells Kozol. "I said: 'Maybe God can help us to survive.' I lost my faith. My hopes...
...want a comfortable life. What's the point of all that hassle?" The only son of a New York City schoolteacher and a lawyer, Icahn was the first student from Far Rockaway High School in Queens to be accepted by Princeton, where he studied philosophy. His mother worried about his future when he dropped out of medical school...
When Fantine dies, Valjean comes to the aid of her daughter, Cosette. He finds that the Thenardiers, the couple who take care of the young Cosette (Christa Larson), are nothing but thieving, conniving pub owners who have worked the child like a slave while charging her mother large sums of money. Thenardier (Tom Robbins) and his wife (Victoria Clark) are the show's clowns, and the audience revels in their provincial language and drunken vulgarity...