Word: motheral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...managed to arrange a meeting at Ma Maison restaurant in Los Angeles early in 1983. Something about her encyclopedic knowledge of his life, combined with her gushing admiration, persuaded him to keep talking. Welles recounted his weird childhood. His father was a failed inventor who became an alcoholic, his mother a failed pianist who died when he was nine, and his older brother a schizophrenic. At 18 months, Orson was "discovered" by Dr. Maurice Bernstein, a family friend, who pronounced the tot a genius and supplied him with a violin, paints and a puppet theater, while ardently courting the genius...
...Choice? No, Plenty. Lange stars as a trailblazing country singer of the '60s who has a truculent husband and a few brushes with disaster. A remake of Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner's Daughter? No, this is Patsy Cline and Sweet Dreams. Spacek plays a Southern working-class mother fighting high-level corruption. Wait a minute: that's Norma Rae, or maybe Silkwood. No, this year they're calling it Marie. Not to be confused with a Close comedy called Maxie, which opened the same...
...Patsy's mother, Ann Wedgeworth gives a strong and lovely reactive performance, and Harris, with his Tom Sawyer grin, convinces the viewer that this goof-off has residues of charm Patsy can find intermittently irresistible. Lange keeps on astonishing. Hefty and bawdy, with a macaw's cackle in good times and a face like a fist in bad, Lange plays Patsy as a cracker Wife of Bath, sated with sexual love and hungry for more. Her Patsy would be a subtle stunner in any season. Right now she is enough to make moviegoers forget the boys and toys of summer...
...Brown, 21-17 Holy Cross, 21-19 5-2 8-3,.727 Charles T. Kurzman Editor. What is to be Done? Guest Selector Harvard 17-10 Army, 7-3 Penn, 35-7 Cornell, 24-7 Brown, 21-20 Holy Cross, 27-17 Mildred Kiefer Wurf Nick's Mother Guest Selector William & Mary, 20-14 Army, 21-3 Penn, 28-7 Cornell, 14-7 Princeton...
...answering all questions ambiguously. But real contradictions and questions appear in the movie that should upset Livingston's new found spiritual agnosticism. Which of the conception stories do we believe, and why does another nun appear to have acted as liason in one of them? What was the Mother Superior's real role in the crime? After all, she was present exerting her maximum influence on Agnes during hypnosis, and one can lie under hypnosis. And who is the baby's father...