Word: thelma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Stanley Spiro's case, the man, the hour, the music and the geography have met. Here you have this Long Island, N.Y., dentist who retires with his wife Thelma to Florida and becomes, in his words, "light-headed, lackadaisical." So he puts together a band, a big band -- Stan Spiro and the Townsmen Orchestra, featuring music in the Glenn Miller mood -- and all of a sudden retirement is a dream, just one long Moonlight Serenade...
...film's action--what there is of it--begins when Jessie's mother Thelma (Anne Bancroft) returns home from an afternoon at the country fair. Bubbling over with superficial spontaneity and weighted down with multifarious milk jugs slated for immediate conversion to lamps, Thelma is blissfully unsuspecting of anything unusual, like a suicide, on the horizon. "Where are my house shoes, sugar?" she gurgles. "It's still light out sugar, why don't you come see the begonias?" And so, we are not surprised to learn that Jessie no longer ventures into the outside world...
Running the gamut from emotional to logical to sneaky and underhanded, Thelma's efforts to keep her daughter alive move lickety split across the screen and will leave you gasping for breath. In one sequence, she goes from resignedly making Jessie a cup of cocoa--a pitiful last request--to throwing the pot across the kitchen in disgust at Jessie's unwillingness to salvage her own life...
...overweight, frumpy rural homebody, Bancroft's Thelma is an inspired interpretation. Unable to make Jessie's existential leap of imagination into the great beyond, she nonetheless struggles to meet her halfway. As a mother, she is unable to let her go without a fight. As the evening wears on, however, she is forced to realize that for Jessie, survival is out of the question...
They had a wedding in Mayberry last week. Barney Fife (Don Knotts), decked out in his best city-slicker suit, finally walked down the aisle with his longtime heartthrob Thelma Lou. A beaming Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith), Barney's old friend and ex-boss, was the best man. Even Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) was on hand to lead the red-robed choir...