" Ms. Edelman is the author of six nonfiction books, including "Motherless Daughters, Motherless Mothers" and "The Possibility of Everything.
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How many fictional children did I leave fatherless, motherless, or orphaned?
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Like many of her plucky motherless predecessors, Gertie never gives up.
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Motherless Deming is eventually taken in by a well-meaning couple.
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The result is entire generations of children who are growing up motherless.
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My list of socially marginalized affiliations grew — motherless, gay, only child, suicide survivor.
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The play also diverges from the novel in making its young hero motherless.
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She was a supporter and advocate for Motherless Daughters and the Covenant House.
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"Daddy" has withdrawn with his teenage children—motherless, untutored, nearly feral—to the woods.
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While shooting it, I nursed newborn motherless twins who were dying in an orphanage.
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It's one of the most famous examples of Disney's penchant for creating motherless characters.
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This novel is his first detective novel since "Motherless Brooklyn" (1999), arguably his masterpiece.
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Motherless, Ms Park became the Blue House's first lady, accompanying her father during official engagements.
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When I was a teenager—motherless—dad flew me to visit her twice a year.
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Born on an uncle's nearby farm, the "pitiful" motherless creature isn't expected to live long.
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How dare you make me choose between saving children or making my own children motherless.
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In Africa, he would take the fawn to nearby rangers to look after the motherless animal.
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Like Chinatown and L.A. Confidential before it, Motherless doesn't just hand you that information on a plate.
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"Motherless Brooklyn" (2019) received a nomination for its moving score, but critics found little else to praise.
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"I didn't want my fucking child to be motherless," he snapped at me, as though it were obvious.
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By the end of the sequence, he has assumed the aspect of one of his own motherless primates.
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Motherless in a way I didn't fully comprehend, except that I had no mother who would own me.
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Alexandre Desplat, "Little Women"Hildur Guðnadóttir, "Joker"Randy Newman, "Marriage Story"Thomas Newman, "1917"Daniel Pemberton, "Motherless Brooklyn"
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Standing outside a movie theater after a screening of Motherless Brooklyn, a woman turned to her friend and sighed.
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By the time the chorus has kicked in—a big wheeze of "Motherless child"—it's all clearly very U2.
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The call had come from a film crew working on the upcoming movie "Motherless Brooklyn," directed by Edward Norton.
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And soon the mournful sound of a spiritual, like "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child," fills the night.
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Other important services, like cervical cancer screenings, provide women with early diagnosis and ensure that children aren't left motherless.
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" Ann said, "Do you remember that song—I think it's a spiritual—'Sometimes I feel like a motherless child'?
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Apparently, Jordan's entire career had been centered around a narrative that he was motherless because she had died years ago.
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Because sometimes moms just have to call the "flipping goose-nuggets" and "sons of motherless goats" as they see them.
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She lost her mother at a young age and still draws on the significance of motherless characters (think Disney princesses).
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Predictably, he takes to Aunt Maureen, his great-uncle's warm American wife, who can play mother to a motherless boy.
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"These people, they caused me to have no wife, they made my children motherless," he claims, referring to the hospital staff.
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The filming of "Motherless Brooklyn" had, until Thursday night, been a source of amusement, curiosity, and minor frustration for the neighborhood.
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It reminded me that I am not alone in feeling, sometimes, like a motherless child, a long, long way from home.
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In "The Quick and the Dead," Joy Williams's kooky and ominous novel, three precocious, motherless teenage girls flirt with the dark.
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Motherless Daughters supported and advocated on behalf of daughters who have lost their mothers by providing emotional support, guidance and resources.
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Goldele (Rachel Policar), a formerly poor, seemingly motherless young woman raised in the shtetl, is moving to America to claim her millions.
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After his turn in "Fight Club," Norton went on to produce and direct both "Motherless Brooklyn" (2000) and "Keeping The Faith" (2019).
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Each book centers on a motherless girl sent to live with her aunt, setting them on rough, rutted paths toward self-discovery.
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Listen, I've worked with Joe Swanberg [on "Easy"], I've worked with Edward Norton [on "Motherless Brooklyn"], I'm not discriminating against male directors.
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Images of her nuzzling marine biologists, who are now tasked with feeding motherless Marium up to 15 times a day, went viral.
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A litter of rescue piglets is motherless no more, thanks to a boxer named Treasure who's taken the group under her care.
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A 13-year-old Massachusetts boy was left motherless following a deadly road rage incident late last week involving two strangers, PEOPLE confirms.
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He isn't interested in having to take care of a kid, much less a motherless girl who refuses to speak directly to him.
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"Motherless Brooklyn," a high-minded crime drama directed by Edward Norton, who played the lead and wrote the screenplay, was dead on arrival.
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Once Gertrude takes Ophelia under her wing, making the motherless girl her charge, the movie retains a clip that could use some slowing.
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I recently saw Motherless Brooklyn, Edward Norton's adaptation of the two-decade-old Jonathan Lethem novel about a private investigator with Tourette syndrome.
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"A mother was killed on her birthday, and now we have a 3-year-old who is going to be motherless," Lusczynski said Tuesday.
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Pius is no longer to think of himself as a fatherless, motherless boy, because he is now Father and Mother of the Catholic Church.
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By the time Motherless is over, you might not understand every narrative turn it took, or how each clue Norton left you fits together.
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He was used to it, after a childhood that was fatherless and motherless, travelling round Europe with the dancer-cousins who informally adopted him.
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The motherless marsupial also received a stuffed animal to cuddle and bond with during the time when she needed a comforting touch the most.
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The idea of a motherless Cersei ruling King's Landing is frankly horrifying, but if this fan theory is correct, then her days are numbered.
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Sometimes he chastised us, urging us to make our faith something practical and do something — feed the homeless, visit the sick, care for the motherless.
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They anchor Bennett's theme of female community: the two motherless women, overseen by the Mothers, struggle with the choice of whether to become mothers themselves.
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Erica and George Cruz filed the suit claiming the production company kept "highly flammable equipment" in the basement of their Harlem building while filming Motherless Brooklyn.
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I thought of being motherless, as I watched the TV reporters at Diana's residence, Kensington Palace, conducting person-on-the-street interviews with shell-shocked Londoners.
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Kratos now has to contend not only with monsters and gods, but also with taking care of a newly-motherless son that he has barely known.
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I cannot protect her from the passing years, from the motherless milestones, or from the feeling each May that she cannot quite put her finger on.
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Motherless from the age of 2, Midhat is eager to please his emotionally distant father, who has remarried and moved much of his business to Cairo.
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He thinks the results of that process led the studio to back his film "Motherless Brooklyn," which he is directing and starring in for release next year.
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So after a racist incident, when the white, motherless 14-year-old Lily (Elizabeth Teeter) rescues her black housekeeper, Rosaleen, by literally removing her shackles, you wince.
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It began last week with Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman" and ends next weekend with Edward Norton's "Motherless Brooklyn," with Noah Baumbach's "Marriage Story" as the designated centerpiece.
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The house where she had raised her son—never, ever realizing that she herself was raising a motherless child, now a long, long way from home. ♦
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Motherless Brooklyn is a crime drama set in the 22017s, about a detective with Tourette's syndrome working to solve the mystery of the murder of his mentor.
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The dogs were later shot dead, but that revenge couldn't bring back the cat whom she had known as the tiniest kitten, motherless, in the laundry basket.
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"Motherless Brooklyn" devotes a lot of time to explanation, which may be necessary given the intricacy of the plot, but which turns into a lecture after a while.
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"When the scandal is gone and the mistakes have been made and they've been rectified, this is what you're left with: a widower and motherless boys," Teap said.
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The building, which was one of Harlem's few remaining jazz clubs before it closed, was being used for the filming of "Motherless Brooklyn," neighbors said on social media.
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Multiple media reports indicate the blaze broke out on the set of Motherless Brooklyn, a movie directed by Ed Norton starring Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe and Alec Baldwin.
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But filmmakers don't owe literary works their reverence, just their intelligence, and "Motherless Brooklyn" is a very smart movie, bristling with ideas about history, politics, art and urban planning.
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Motherless isn't an easily digestible history lesson on exactly what Robert Moses did to the city back in the 20th century—and to Norton, that's how it should be.
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But Lionel, played by Edward Norton, who also wrote and directed "Motherless Brooklyn" (loosely adapted from Jonathan Lethem's novel of the same name) is tenderhearted rather than hard-boiled.
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On my way to shoot MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN and grateful to be working w Edward Norton, Cherry Jones, Willem Dafoe, Bruce Willis, Bobby Canavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Michael K Williams.
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Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Jasmine from Aladdin, Belle from Beauty and the Beast, and even Elsa and Anna from Frozen all have one thing common: They are motherless.
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But in recent weeks it was transformed into a set for an Edward Norton film, an adaptation — set in the 1950s — of "Motherless Brooklyn," a novel by Jonathan Lethem.
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Tonight, she became the first solo woman ever to take home the trophy in the category, beating out the talented composers behind Little Women, Marriage Story, and Motherless Brooklyn.
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"We are today living in a refugee camp, you can say fatherless and motherless," he said, using a term to suggest that there is no support or sense of belonging.
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In its last days, the pub had been used as a film set for "Motherless Brooklyn," an adaptation of Jonathan Lethem's detective novel set in the 1950s in New York City.
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Jonathan Lethem's new book may be billed as a detective novel for simplicity's sake — and to remind us of his breakthrough, "Motherless Brooklyn" — but when did Lethem ever do anything simple?
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In an allegory of boomer-economics, her father has checked out of parenting his motherless daughters, in order to enjoy life with his sex-obsessed, saccharine new fiancée, played by Colman.
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The building was being used as a set for the movie "Motherless Brooklyn," starring Willem Dafoe, Willis, Baldwin and Edward Norton, who was also listed as a director and screenwriter, CBS reported.
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Mid-budget movies — "Motherless Brooklyn" cost about $25 million to make, not including marketing — have been sputtering in theatrical release, prompting studios to avoid them entirely or reroute them to streaming services.
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But even as she wrote the affirmations, she began to recite a litany of fears: bleeding again when she goes into labor, coming home empty-handed, dying and leaving her sons motherless.
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Mr. Lethem's papers contain items relating to the novels that made him something of a reluctant patron saint of Brooklyn's literary ascendance, including "Motherless Brooklyn" (1999) and "The Fortress of Solitude" (2003).
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On Sunday, during a special post–Sunday Night Football episode of The Tonight Show, the Motherless Brooklyn actor, 61, revealed his recent weight loss to show host Jimmy Fallon and an unexpecting audience.
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It's "very impressive [for] a major corporate leader to be in the world saying, 'We cannot have capitalism that continues to be defined by shareholder value,'" the "Motherless Brooklyn" filmmaker said of Benioff.
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Like the plot of nearly every decent Disney movie, the young Sedaris princes and princesses were sent out into the scary grown-up world motherless and rudderless but buoyed by her magnificent spirit.
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Two months after the event, Rudolph appeared on the cover of Jet magazine alongside her father and brother; an inside spread featured photographs and a detailed description of her motherless seventh-birthday pool party.
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She's already returned to filming, this time in New York for Motherless Brooklyn, a '50s detective mystery directed by Ed Norton, a project that, somehow, manages to be very different from anything she's previously done.
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Here in the Texas tundra, it received a second life—his melodic blend of singing and rapping seems mystically attuned to the pulmonary rhythms of freeway traffic, rapidly shifting climate, motherless vegetation, and myriad churches.
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After 20 years' intimacy with the Wordsworth circle, De Quincey left, as Wilson puts it, the University of the Lakes for the Athens of the North, trailing a woebegone brood of motherless children behind him.
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The building, which was one of Harlem's few remaining jazz clubs before it closed, was being used for the filming of "Motherless Brooklyn," based on a book by Jonathan Lethem and directed by Edward Norton.
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But none of what I heard about "Frozen II," which revisits the central characters' relationship to their deceased parents, prepared me — a motherless daughter and now parent — for the response I had while viewing it.
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That alliance was disrupted in the 1920s with a consumer-driven youth revolt against the prudish Victorian matriarch and a celebration of a motherless girl culture of flapper dance-a-thons, petting parties and gin fests.
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"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" ended on a note of bottomless loneliness as Mr. Scarlata's voice tapered to a thread and Ms. Kataoka gently raked the strings of the piano with a soft mallet.
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This is my ninth motherless Mother's Day, and while I still feel a little that people who take their mom out to brunch to celebrate are bragging, I'd like to assure you all that I'm fine.
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As embodied by Gregory Peck in the movie adaptation, Atticus Finch was an iconic hero: not only a devoted father to his two motherless children Scout and Jem, but also a symbol of decency, compassion and honor.
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In Jonathan Lethem's detective novel " Motherless Brooklyn ," from 1999, Lionel Essrog, a private investigator with Tourette's syndrome, shadows some bad guys from a Zen Buddhist retreat in Manhattan to a Japanese sea-urchin-harvesting operation in Maine.
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The close of Act II, depicting the consequences, is wrenching: Miranda, her transformation underway, slowly departs, but engineers a reunion of the children — now motherless — with their father, as the populace expresses sorrow in a hushed ensemble.
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Norton basically jams a tour through The Power Broker (the famously thorough 173 biography of Robert Moses, which has nothing to do with Motherless Brooklyn) into the core of his adaptation, without much to say about it.
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" Read the Review This is Karr's "haunting memoir of growing up in East Texas in the early 1960s, virtually motherless, and fiercely seeking to understand her parents, their lives and their relationship to her sister and herself.
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Creepy bassline, clangy distorted drums, angular clatters of guitar noise, and whooshy synth zooms simmer and stomp while Flowers gets increasingly hysterical over a "motherless child," commanding said child to "be of good cheer," making grand untenable promises.
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In addition to becoming a producer with a three-year deal — "Motherless Brooklyn" is another in-the-works Warner movie she will join — Ms. Kroll will serve as "special adviser" to Mr. Tsujihara on the restructuring, Warner said.
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The chapters — narrated in the audio edition by Michael Curran-Dorsano with hushed intensity — alternate between the points of view of motherless, 12-year-old Peter and 5-year-old Pax, the fox Peter adopted as a kit.
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Alexandre Desplat, "Little Women"Hildur Gudnadottir, "Joker"Randy Newman, "Marriage Story"Thomas Newman, "1917" Daniel Pemberton, "Motherless Brooklyn" If you're related to competing cousins Randy and Thomas Newman, filling out your Golden Globes pool could prove awfully fraught.
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" Actually, it's not Caroline who's speaking at that moment, but Ms. Kidwell, whom we have just seen as an apparition out of a white man's fantasy: an erotic, all-succoring Mammy, singing "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child.
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The woman says she was in her apartment when the fire started last week in the building's basement, but according to her lawsuit ... someone from the production team for the film -- "Motherless Brooklyn" -- told her it had been extinguished.
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" He has abandoned his motherless 10-year-old daughter, Bess, to her aunt and several local predatory men and travels with "an ill-favored, narrow-shouldered Shawnee boy who bore the unpromising name of Old Woman From a Distance.
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And then there are the only black performers here, the eternal Blind Boys of Alabama, who amid all the bellowing and emoting deliver "Motherless Children" as if thanking God for getting that hellhound off their trail a long long time ago.
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A crew filming the movie "Motherless Brooklyn" had been working inside the club and an apartment above it when they smelled smoke rising from the cellar, Edward Norton, the director of the film, said on Saturday in an Instagram post.
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Those itching to see Norton's soon-to-be-released adaptation of "Motherless Brooklyn" can in the meantime revisit his performance in this drama from Alejandro González Iñárritu, for which Norton was nominated for an Academy Award for best supporting actor.
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The thought of my own life coming to a premature and painful end filled me with sorrow; the threat of leaving her motherless in this difficult world sent me into quiet, late-night paroxysms of grief that spiraled into panic attacks.
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When I took a doctor friend to a screening of "Motherless Brooklyn," after which Edward Norton, its writer, director and star, bounced from Off Broadway anecdotes to the technical demands of playing a character with Tourette's syndrome, she turned to me.
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MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF CARSON McCULLERSBy Jenn Shapland In Carson McCullers's 1946 novel "The Member of the Wedding," 12-year-old Frankie Addams, a motherless girl growing up in small-town Georgia, is jolted by news of her older brother's engagement.
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Ms Franklin suggests that this toxic relationship not only informed Jackson's fiction (her heroines are all "essentially motherless" ), but also prepared her for marriage to Stanley Edgar Hyman, a literary critic she met at university, who tormented her with his cruelty and infidelity.
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Led by Hope Edelman, author of Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, and a grief counselor, the retreat allowed Fuchs to reflect on losing her mom through writing and sharing exercises and spending time with other women who experienced the same loss.
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It's less fully realized than "Motherless Brooklyn" (1999), his ecstatic breakthrough novel, a detective tale narrated by a man with Tourette's syndrome, or "The Fortress of Solitude" (2003), his streetwise, semi-autobiographical novel about growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s and '80s.
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His song "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" became newly emblematic of his relationship to his home country; the Soviets had put his recording of the song over an animated short film about racism and labor exploitation in the American sugar industry.
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The new movie's scenario mixes a large number of heartstring-pulling tropes: abandoned animals, war veterans with PTSD, a socially awkward male protagonist who adopts a suddenly motherless half-pit-bull whelp in a town where the breed is outlawed, a painful separation.
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I was a motherless 26-year-old and this was the first time that I was privy to the reality facing many professional women in America: the attempt to "time" a pregnancy so as not to hurt our chances of ascending the corporate ladder.
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And the score—featuring a haunting original song by Thom Yorke, and a handful of arrangements from Wynton Marsalis, the artistic director of jazz at Lincoln Center—lends Motherless a dark, moody soundscape, of a piece with how uneasy the film makes you feel.
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Interestingly, despite the various fears floated about coffee's health risks, my dad never came home with stories of people's lives ruined by their daily cuppa jo, never warned his wife that her daily double-tall non-fat latte would leave her three children motherless.
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Instead of allowing her children to grow up motherless in an unkind world, or face what she views as a fate worse than death, the mother thinks she's acting in their best interest, says Philip Resnick, a leading filicide researcher who co-authored the analysis.
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There was, for example, no such person as the nice nun, Mary Katherine, who when she can't persuade her superiors to share her concern about the dreamy, motherless girl in her class, vows to devote herself in the future to the welfare of abused children.
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Diana Williams, executive vice president of creative for MWM Universe — the intellectual property division of the entertainment company behind "Hell or High Water" and the upcoming "Motherless Brooklyn" and "21 Bridges" — says "Terminator: Dark Fate" is the movie she's most excited to see this year.
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Marigold Daisy Green, the smart, winningly awkward, motherless adolescent narrator of Jane Gardam's 1976 novel "Bilgewater," isn't a student at St. Wilfrid's, the boys' school where her father is a housemaster, but the boys who are — with their beery parties and questionable romantic judgments — hulk around her.
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In the early years of this century, an Australian company, Genetic Technologies, reported that even in so-called motherless tests—those requested by men without informing the mother, presumably because they harbored realistic suspicions—ostensible paternity had been falsified in only ten per cent of the cases.
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The shoot was going down in Harlem when the 5-alarm fire broke out just before 11 PM. Norton is directing and co-starring with Willis in "Motherless Brooklyn" ... and the production crew actually called in the blaze, which started in the basement of the building where they were shooting.
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One in three Japanese tourists who come to the city have seen the film, according to Tourism Salzburg, while 21946 percent of all American visitors (numbering about 2100,19433 in 21943) are here in part to retrace the footsteps of the novice nun who brings music to a family of motherless children.
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The story, about a bereaved father who is struggling to save his family home for his motherless children, is a lot darker — and far less fixable by a magical nanny — than that of the original film, where the biggest hurdle is a brief loss of employment that seems to inject a spring into Mr. Banks's previously dour step.
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Carson came to see the world as beautiful, wild, animal, and vulnerable, each part attached to every other part, not only through prodigious scientific research but also through a lifetime of caring for the very old and the very young, wiping a dying man's brow, tucking motherless girls into bed, heating up dinners for a lonely little boy.
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Warner has released seven small- and midbudget bombs — seven — since May, including several that received solid reviews from most critics: "The Good Liar," a low-cost dramatic thriller starring Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen; "Motherless Brooklyn," a period gumshoe drama directed by and starring Edward Norton; and "Blinded by the Light," a comedic drama about a Pakistani teenager in Britain who finds inspiration in Bruce Springsteen.
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Other morsels include Mr. Firth in an early role as a witness in "Crown Court" (1984); as a motherless young man who joins his uncle's magic act in "Lost Empires" (240); as a field hockey player who forgets his match while chasing the opposite sex through the Netherlands in "Dutch Girls" (21983); as a filmmaker obsessed with the perfect love in "The Play on One: Out of the Blue" (28); and as a London banker who starts doling out his wealth to the needy in "Born Equal" (215).
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Beanie Feldstein, Booksmart Emma Thompson, Late Night Tom Hanks, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Anthony Hopkins, The Two Popes Al Pacino, The Irishman Joe Pesci, The Irishman Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell Annette Benning, The Report Laura Dern, Marriage Story Jennifer Lopez, Hustlers Margot Robbie, Bombshell Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story Bong Jonn-ho and Han Jin-won, Parasite Anthony McCarten, The Two Popes Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood Steven Zaillian, The Irishman Motherless Brooklyn Little Women Joker 1917 Marriage Story "Beautiful Ghosts," Taylor Swift and Andrew Lloyd Webber, Cats "(I'm Gonna) Love Me Again," Elton John, Rocketman "Into the Unknown," Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez, Frozen II "Spirit," Beyoncé, The Lion King "Stand Up," Harriet Big Little Lies The Crown Succession The Morning Show Killing Eve Barry Fleabag The Kominsky Method The Marvelous Mrs.
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