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This is a lot more difficult that it sounds. Momma as played by Anne Ramsey gives new meaning to the word overbearing. She orders Owen around mercilessly, calling him a "clumsy poop" and a "lard-ass". Ramsey's performance is so eccentric and so funny that it is almost shocking. She seems to have arrived from another planet, one inhabited by creatures that are not exactly human...
...most eccentric performance is turned in by Anne Ramsey as Umstetter's mother. She's a parody of the faithful, loving Hollywood mother and she looks like the result of a genetic experiment in which Mama Leone's genes were spliced with a munchkin...
...hope is that some aspects of this could serve as national models," said John F. Ramsey, assistant director of the Foundation, adding that Harvard professors have donated "literally hundreds of hours" to the project...
Kotelchuck, Dr. Steven Gordmaker and other SPH doctors will administer the project. However, Ramsey said local leaders will help choose the four "comadres" to receive training and part-time jobs as pregnancy counselors...
...somebody from an ivory tower setting picking people out of the blue," Ramsey said. Project Life is "oriented around local leaders and a sophisticated self-help model. It relies on acceptance of local leaders," he added. "It's a low-tech, not a high-tech intervention...