![]() ![]() And Gary’s wife, Twyla, is having a nervous breakdown, buying up all the lipstick in drug stores around New Orleans and bursting into crying fits. Meanwhile Gary, Alex’s brother, is incommunicado, trying to get his movie career off the ground in Los Angeles. She travels to New Orleans to be with her family, but mostly to interrogate her tightlipped mother, Barbra.Īs Barbra fends of Alex’s unrelenting questions, she reflects on her tumultuous life with Victor. ![]() Now that Victor is on his deathbed, Alex feels she can finally unearth the secrets of who he is and what he did over the course of his life and career. ![]() “If I know why he is the way he is then maybe I can learn why I am the way I am,” says Alex Tuchman, strong-headed lawyer, loving mother, and daughter of Victor Tuchman-a power-hungry real estate developer and, by all accounts, a bad man. ![]()
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