Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mother Nature can be quite unmerciful...
Emer Martin (EM): When I was growing up my mother always told a story. She came from a small town in Ireland...and there were people that lived opposite that had a mad daughter, and they always kept her locked upstairs to they only ever saw this face in the window. Rumor had it if you went to the family and were in their living room, that she would appear at the top of the stairs and shout "More bread or I'll appear," and they'd run up and feed her rather than have her come down and embarrass...
...When I was growing up there was a certain type of figure, a daughter, who stayed with the mother. In Ireland so many people emigrated, but there was always one daughter who stayed at home with the mother, lived with the mother, took care of the mother, didn't get married. And she was always the one that the mother loved least. [Laughs] It's horrible, I know. I used to go to the funerals of great aunts, and people would all be muttering, going, "there's such and such, she gave her whole life to her mother...
...probably missed it last night, so it's playing again. Wim Wenders's "Alice in the Cities" tracks the budding friendship of a German photojournalist (Rudgier Vogler) and an abandoned 9-year-old girl (Yella Rottlander) as they search for her mother (Lisa Kreuzer). German with English subtitles, black-and-white, 16mm. The Harvard Film Archive, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts Main Auditorium. 495-4700. 9:45 p.m. FREE...
...kind of place mother always warned you about. Buried in Boston's clubby Landsdowne St., Who's on First? is the college community's answer to south central Amsterdam. To find out exactly who is on first--and why they'd want to be there--FM sent two veteran writers to the trenches...