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...fine piece of furniture: even the scratches and weather-warps are marks of character. Cassavetes' camera has found a fit object of veneration, a great movie-star face that, in motion or repose, commands attention. In Gloria, Rowlands obviously has a lot of fun playing the hard-boiled momma. She hunches her shoulders, narrows her eyes, breathes through her teeth, slaps her hand on her thigh and spits out lines like "I don't like kids. I hate kids. Especially your kids," and "I'll kill anybody that's tryin' ta kill...
Terry Won't Talk springs from the refusal of Terry Blade (Mark Linn-Baker) to communicate with his family; as sister Suzy (Marilyn Caskey) announces at the outset, "Momma! Terry won't talk!" Terry becomes a sort of walking Rorschach blot, upon whom each of the characters projects an explanation for his silence: his mother (Elizabeth Norment) thinks someone lied to him; his teacher (Nancy Mayans) thinks he's ill; the principal (John Bottoms) sees it as the silence of a poet; and Mrs. Blade's lover, Chester, who seems to be a regular reader of Existential Digest, ascribes...
...Congressman contends that all the cash donations were legal because they went to pay for the party and defends such collections in Wilsonian style. "You think I got money?" he asks. "You should have seen my son's wedding. He married an Italian girl, and Momma stood at the door with a bag in her hands. They made out like bandits...
...best-known movie performances, Susan Sarandon scored as Brooke Shields' momma in Pretty Baby, a saga about a New Orleans house of you know what. Momma, who is 30, has pretty good gams herself. In her latest movie, Something Short of Paradise, Sarandon plays a feminist writer who wants love and security but not necessarily the marriage commitment that her partner, David Steinberg, insists on. Says Sarandon: "It's a pretty modern love story, which means everyone is fairly confused." In any case, the best shots of her are thigh...
...couple's tactical problem: Who would guard the home front, with Momma in the front lines? Obviously Poppa, since in these days of deflated dollars Yanks in Germany can no longer easily afford such amenities as full-time baby sitters. So Richard dutifully quit his job once more. In increasingly liberated America, househusbands are becoming an accepted part of life. But in the macho world of the military, Richard is an unassimilable anomaly: as far as his military neighbors were concerned, he might as well have bartered away Pentagon secrets. Explains Richard: "The husbands won't talk...