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...personal look at a working-class family and its psychological baggage. Most family comedies today avoid dark themes or sublimate them, as in Everybody Loves Raymond's passive-aggressive squabbles. Lopez is willing to get ugly, albeit with a grin. After a fight between George and his mom (Belita Moreno), Angie asks, "Are you never going to talk to her again?" "No," he deadpans. "Eventually I'm going to have to say, 'It's O.K., Mom, let go. Head for the light.'" Like most stand-ups, Lopez as an actor is no Daniel Day-Lewis; he's not even Daniel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prime-Time Therapy | 3/24/2003 | See Source »

They include a seamstress named Popeye (Belita Moreno) who learned her trade making dresses for frogs and hears Voices through her eyes; a romantic gallant (Mark Linn-Baker) who is haunted by nightmares of dismemberment and memories of an unsuitable recent job sweeping up dead dogs from the road; a sometime belle (Patricia Richardson) who finds it easy to leave her husband but impossible to abandon her clock col lection; and a carnival balloon salesman (Budge Threlkeld), cheerfully wondering which of the three major diseases inhabiting his body will kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Jagged Flashes of Inspiration | 6/11/1984 | See Source »

...scientists and by such organizations as Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader's Health Research Group and the National Women's Health Network. The latter group has collected about 150 case histories of women who claim to have suffered ill effects from taking Depo-Provera and, according to Director Belita Cowan, it has plans to sue Upjohn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Effective, but How Safe? | 1/24/1983 | See Source »

...movies found voice that the moviegoer has been offered a picture without dialogue. Indeed, the absence of what passes for human speech in most movie scripts will probably attract more customers to this show than the presence of well-known dancers (Igor Youskevitch, Tamara Toumanova, Claire Sombert, Diana Adams, Belita, Carol Haney, Tommy Rail), who do not get much chance to strut their stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 11, 1956 | 6/11/1956 | See Source »

...basis of two days' tryouts, co-directors Sally Lord and Isabelle Fulton selected the following supporting casts: "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals"--Pat Kelleher, Martha Nicely, Marie Beth Walsh, Ruth Abrams, and Margy Ryan; "The Potboiler"--Belita Casuso, Nancy Shea, Wendie Cowie, Carol Cummings, Marjorie Hill, and Carrie Sue Wright...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe '53 Chooses Casts for Two Plays | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

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