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...veneer on a flat surface gets turned into a form of Cubism, rather as the Dutch Constructivist Gerrit Rietveld in the 1920s abstracted the shape of a chair into a penitential parody of itself. Not only Cubism gets its share of parody, but other styles as well -- Frank Stella's paintings or, in a tiny architectural piece with a tower and a tilted ramp called De Chirico's Bathhouse, 1980, the theatrical piazzas of Italian "metaphysical painting...
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...
Dottie is, in some ways, a Stella Dallas for the '90s -- gutsy, good- hearted, slightly vulgar. And a very caring single parent. Like Stella, who broadly symbolized another generation's sentiments about motherhood, Dottie encapsulates those feelings -- much more ambivalent -- as well as anyone has in recent popular entertainment...
What a difference a few decades make. Stella finally had no choice but to live for, and ultimately through, her daughter. Dottie has no choice but to live for herself and hope her happiness will buoy the kids along. Stella's saving gracelessness was lack of awareness; she never realized what a ridiculous figure she cut. Dottie's saving grace is full ironic awareness of the chance she is taking. As she rises from cosmetics-counter tummler to the Carson show to Las Vegas, she works this gag into her act: "If you give kids a choice -- your mother...
Kids love the gladiators because their shows are like real-life video games with living heroes. "I like the way the gladiators make it seem so easy," says Braxton Winston, 8, a Brooklyn fan who watches the TV show with his brother Brandon, 7. The boys' mother Stella is in favor too. "I like them liking the gladiators," she says. "They're good role models. They don't do drugs, they eat the right foods, they take pride in their bodies. They give the children something to strive...