Word: patriarchalism
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Within days of the death in late May of Umberto Agnelli, the patriarch of one of Italy's leading business families, Giuseppe Morchio made his move. As mourners paid their last respects, the chief executive of the Fiat auto and truck company that is the core of the Agnelli family fortune demanded to be given Umberto's title of chairman as well. To the family, it seemed like a blatant power grab, and when its members replied, "No, grazie," he quit in a huff. The top job went instead to Luca Cordero di Montezemolo, the head of Ferrari...
...answer is a qualified yes. As Walter Lee, a chauffeur with dreams of starting his own business, a frustrated patriarch in a house full of women, he has an easy naturalism onstage. His bantamweight body is lithe and expressive--now sullen, now cocky, now bitterly mocking--and he gives Walter a punkish charm. Where he doesn't measure up is in the big scenes. At the climactic moment when Walter realizes the money he has entrusted to a friend is irretrievably lost, Combs is too cool a customer to really register the blow. (He told his acting coach, according...
Take another trip with this update on the Chevy Chase vacation saga. Cedric the Entertainer is the patriarch of an adorably wacky family—which features the no longer lil’ Bow Wow—traveling cross-country for a family reunion. Watch as the antics get more and more clichéd, but enjoy the random bursts of dumb fun, like the hot tub antics with two obese white women and the legitimately humorous guest appearance of frequent Cedric collaborator Steve Harvey as Cedric’s brother...
Take another trip with this update on the Chevy Chase vacation saga. Cedric the Entertainer is the patriarch of an adorably wacky family—which features the no longer lil’ Bow Wow—traveling cross-country for a family reunion. Watch as the antics get more and more clichéd, but enjoy the random bursts of dumb fun, like the hot tub antics with two obese white women and the legitimately humorous guest appearance of frequent Cedric collaborator Steve Harvey as Cedric’s brother...
...Sopranos' comedy is inseparable from its drama, as in the exemplary third episode, in which patriarch "Uncle Junior" (Dominic Chianese) begins showing signs of senility--after faking it to avoid jail. Watching TV, he lands on HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and looks uneasily at the similarly bald, skinny Larry David. "What the f___?" he asks. "Why am I on there?" (Imagine if HBO had been airing The Sopranos.) Chianese is just one example of the show's bench strength, and he gives his best performance yet as he drives to Newark and gets lost looking for his long-dead...