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...their palatial apartment on the Seine--as "breathless, magic." As Reg built his financial empire, first with the leveraged buyout of a radio station, then the McCall Pattern Co. and finally Beatrice, she put her job aside to raise their two daughters. The magic ended when he was stricken by brain cancer...
...jokes about shouting in libraries and Geraldo Rivera. In the end, after his escape collapses just as his siblings have predicted, Brad comes close to a moral moment of truth--should he kill his mother, for all their sakes?--and Farnsworth does a good job in this scene, alternately stricken and hopeful. But the tension of the moment is dissipated in a ghostly flashback, which takes us back to the months before the lost baby died, leading us to believe that it was this event that pushed Mamma over the edge. As this was crystal clear already, this final scene...
...Cynthia curdles in disbelief, for she is white, Hortense black. "I don't mean nothin' by it, darlin'," Cynthia protests in her tiny voice, "but I ain't never been with a black man in my life." She stares into the void, and then a chill comes over her stricken face--you can almost see the room temperature drop--as the truth collapses on her. She dissolves in tears as her daughter sits numbly beside her. Welcome to the family, Hortense...
Rangel, who represents poverty-stricken Harlem, was one of 93 Democratic Congressional representatives who opposed the welfare reform bill, which cuts $60 billion in funding and requires recipients to find employment within two years...
Rangel, who represents poverty-stricken Harlem, was one of 93 Democratic congressional representatives who opposed the welfare reform bill, which cuts $60 billion in funding and requires recipients to find employment within two years...