Word: motherism
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...thought she was way ahead of her time, she was an extraordinary model for women,” said Kitty Dukakis in an interview after the event. “As my mother used to say, ‘without being obnoxious about it, there was something very refined and special about...
...Glover). Accompanied by his "14 brave thanes," Beowulf (Ray Winstone) comes across the sea to slay the monster and, not incidentally, add another laurel to his own legend. He repels a Grendel attack on Mead Hall, severing the beast's arm. Grendel limps back to his lair, where his mother - she has no name, so we'll call her Grendma - watches him die. When Beowulf discovers the lair, Grendma reveals herself in the form of a beautiful seductress (Jolie). He returns to Mead Hall declaring that he killed both monster and mother, but displaying only Grendel's head. Many years...
...with pathos, as much for monster as for man. Grendel is a horror, a plague, to Hrothgar's kingdom, but he seems plaintive, lonely, in his cave. He complains to his mother in some Scandivanian tongue, as if Gollum had shown up in a Bergman film. Up close he has the physiognomy of Rondo Hatton, the actor whose acromegalic face got him roles as villains in ?40s mysteries and horror films. Grendel too seems typecast for villainy, but maybe the humans just don't understand how close he is to them. Why, they might...
...dramatic triumph. However, it’s marred by unnecessary flourishes from a still-immature writer’s pen. The film is ultimately a beautiful but fractured anecdote of a film, and not much more. In the titular role, Nicole Kidman plays a moderately successful author and mother of two who, along with her son (Zane Pais), returns to her childhood home where her younger sister is about to be married. Kidman, relishing the role of a hovering, parental perfectionist, disapproves strongly of sister Jennifer Jason Leigh’s engagement to scatterbrained starving artist Jack Black. Throw...
...Kerik never fit the profile of most other members in Giuliani's posse. While they spent their 20s and 30s attending prestigious colleges and law schools, Kerik was facing tests they couldn't imagine. He was born in Newark, N.J., to an alcoholic father and a street-walking mother. His parents drifted to Ohio in the 1950s and separated when he was 2. His mother left Kerik in the care of a new boyfriend's mother until his father turned up after a few months and rescued him. He never saw his mother again. After high school, Kerik joined...