Phil Rosenthal
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She should be dressed beautifully.
I said, do you wear a beautiful dress when you are cleaning up around the house?
And she says, no, of course not.
And I said, well, then why would we do it here?
And she says, because she is on television.
And I said, yes, but she doesn't know she's on television.
So that was the culture clash.
That's it.
So it was charming in its way and frustrating in its way and funny in its way.
It's a really funny documentary, I have to say.
Not because I made it, but because of the situation.
Right.
So they come from a very different background and they are immigrants.
And we didn't have a lot of money and we didn't have a lot of time to or my parents.
Rather, my parents didn't have a lot of time to prepare gourmet meals for the kids.
They both worked, and it was all they could do to get whatever was affordable on the table, and you're going to eat it.
And so, you know, in our house, meat was a punishment because it was the cheapest grade of meat, and my mother had a setting on the oven for choux, and that was it.
And you weren't going to leave the table until you finished.
So it wasn't fun times, although there were, again, when we weren't yelling at each other, which we did a lot.
We were laughing.