Word: nora
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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THIS IS MY LIFE. "And my mother wants to be a stand-up comic." In Nora Ephron's adorable yet unsentimental comedy, Dottie Ingels (Julie Kavner) is an up-to-date Stella Dallas: an Everymom whose greatest responsibility is to live for herself...
Imagine a story about a single mother with dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian. Then imagine that the woman's dream miraculously comes true. That is essentially what happens in This is My Life, a new comedy from Nora Ephron...
...hoopla over Crazy is the centerpiece of a musical nostalgia binge that is sweeping over Broadway as it nears the end of a season in which the only truly new American musical, Nick & Nora, died quickly and the one new musical yet to come, Metro, is being imported from Warsaw with an all-Polish creative team and cast, albeit performing in English...
PRODUCTION: Joseph J. Scafidi (Deputy); Trang Ba Chuong, Theresa Kelliher, L. Rufino-Armstrong (Supervisors); Robert L. Becker, Silvia Castaneda Contreras, Michael Dohne, Osmar Escalona, Garry Hearne, Nora Jupiter, Agustin Lamboy, Jeannine Laverty, Marcia L. Love, Janet L. Lugo, Peter J. McGullam, Sandra Maupin, Helen May, Michael Skinner...
...strength of this charming and quietly confident movie -- Nora Ephron's first as a director -- is that it never turns into a single act. Even the minor characters are sharply written. Dottie's kids are fully her equals in its structure, always giving as good as they get. Erica's the silent, watchful one. Little Opal's the pert mistress of the wise-child zinger. In fact, the film's two best passages belong to them. When Erica takes as her first lover the squarest boy in school (that'll show Mom), their struggle with the logistics of lovemaking...