Paddy

PaddyFade-in:the family homestead of Paddy Pastafazul and his sisters and his cousins and his aunts, a typical average lower-middle-class American family of Irish-Italian origins who live in an old stage-set of Clifford Odets' Awake and Sing which they got cheap from the Group Theatre when it disbanded. Extension cords crisscross the living room, resembling the work of a mammoth spider. Paddy's mama, known as Mama, wrapped in a ratty old chenille bathrobe, is looking out the window at film clips...