Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Well, women do get out of the house, as indicated by two surprise hits of 1992: Sister Act, whose star, Whoopi Goldberg, could earn a man-size $7.5 million for the sequel, and Penny Marshall's A League of Their Own. Now, says Obst, "it's easier for me to pitch movies that are close to my heart because I have more models I can point...
Thompson was to her manners born. Her mother is actress Phyllida Law, who plays the pruney maid in Peter's Friends and Hero's attendant Ursula in Much Ado; her father was actor-director Eric Thompson; Emma's younger sister Sophie was a successful child actress. Of her parents Emma says, "The main influence is that actors are so good with children. They do not patronize them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious...
...gets lampooned on TV sitcoms. When the banker is killed in a mugging, the cop must grapple with a range of emotions: a craving for revenge; an emerging sense of responsibility for his brother's family; even (suggested ever so delicately) + romantic stirrings for his sister-in-law. Some of the dialogue clangs with touchy-feely phoniness ("How come you didn't cry when my father was killed?" an angry boy demands of his uncle). But the show scores with scenes of luminous originality and emotional truth: an improvised dance of grief by the widow; a jail-cell encounter between...
...until malpractice premiums rose so high that he was forced to restrict his work to gynecology. And that was when the folks in Benton began to lose touch with what he was doing. Last week the members of his family -- including his parents, his older brother Peter, his twin sister Diane and younger sister Lilith -- heard that he had been killed and learned for the first time that he had made his living performing abortions. "We were totally unaware," says Peter, "that he was involved in such a volatile issue...
...holds the family together and has a unique relationship with each character, this part is challenging and complex. Poreba gives an intense performance, making appropriate adjustments for different situations. Toward the end of the play, Kate releases about 20 years of pent-up tension in a confrontation with her sister Blanche. Poreba carries Kate's anger, guilt and affection believably and sensitively...