Hopping around time in a non-linear storytelling fashion (on 'Lost') allows you to bring back characters who are … - Damon Lindelof

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In Gypsy [Rose Lee] the musical, her mother, 'Mama Rose', is portrayed as a slightly eccentric, pushy, ambitious stage mother, but that version doesn't come close to the truth.

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