European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 21, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse Richard Dreyfus and his wife Jeremy. His Mother had Given up Hope that to would Ever marry. App ulc finding a wife who la please Momma by ires Krasnow United press International s he s his first love his greatest Ian and his toughest Grille when it comes to theother woman in his life. Mom wants Only Thebes or her son i such perfection can truly exist. My Mother actually said on the eve of my own wedding about 35 years ago that she could t understand Why any boy with a perfectly healthy Mother needed a wife in the first place says cartoon so Mel Lazarus 58. His comic strip Momma portrays an aging Mother who s trying desperately to slay in 1he males dream of her grown up children s lives. Helga Reznikoff of Hallandale. Fla Calls herself a Liberal jewish Mother who stresses happiness Over religion when it conies to her iwo sons Choice of spouses. The one thing i can Tell you far sure i judge my sons girlfriends dime rent than i do my daughter s boyfriends admits Reznikoff. Mother of John 26 and Alex 27. Her 30-year-old daughter Anne married iwo years a go. The qualifications for Niy daughter is someone ambitious and honest who will Lake care of her. With my sons. I want someone who is absolutely crazy about them. Certainly i Don t want her to look like quasimodo but Beauly in t 1hat brains Are. She does t have to be a . Supreme court Justice but she has to be Bright continues rear Kofl. I Don t want a whiny. Grasping do nothing woman. I ask Tor somebody who reads the papers knows who Dante was. But most importantly she must have a sense of she fuels her opinion is crucial in the selection process. But when push comes to shove her sons will do what they want says rez Nikoll. I know my sons want my approval they bring their girlfriends Down to Florida and ask a what do you think?1 but if one reels a Goat shepherdess from Southern Spain and Falls completely in love with her i know there s nothing i can do Aboul chicagoan Rulh Panter feels the chances of her son marrying someone with whom she was t pleased were very slim. Ii would be very hard Lor him to marry someone he did t Leel we wanted. Michael is very involved Wilh us Panter explains of her 33-year-Olrj attorney son who married two years ago. When Michael brought his future wife Holly to a family event Lor the first time his Mother had the gut Leeling this was the one. I liked her right away says Panzer. First of All she liked us it s a two Way Deal. I liked that she Felt comfortable with us. None of the others seemed to tit i had hoped Lor my Panter laughs when asked if Michael was looking Lor someone like herself. I Hope so. What Molher would t wan to think that cartoonist Lazarus thinks jealousy is the ingredient that fuels the judging process i think it s Bare laced jealousy. There s a Strong Competition Between the Rno Lher and 1he son s Wile or the 16-year-Otd Momma comic strip that runs in some 260 newspapers around the world is admittedly autobiographical. Starring Lazarus s russian immigrant saturday june 21, 1986 the stars and strikes Mol Hor. Who died three years ago at age 85, As much As my Mother liked my wife she always managed to gel in a Little recalls Lazarus who divorced 11 years no. Once my wife admired Sorn Lhing my Molher cooked and asked for the recipe. My Mother gave in to her but left out one ingredient soil would Onslo Lousy and i would think she was Tho bettor psychological studies reveal most sons still want women just like the ones Hal married old dad any psychologies study will show you Hal a Man Chow. A wife who has his Molher s personally says psychologist columnist tid Taik of How Hosl Joyce Brothers. The reason Why mama gets Upsel by the girl the san brings Homo is the thing she can l stand in herself she can t land in thai Washington Bachelor Dob Waite. 36, says he s nol really on i Nib ill in. But th.1l of is to women with is Ikic his null Hor s my Mother was a professional woman she laugh nursing in a Unver Sily and i do look Lor someone who has an Independent career and an Educ says wite manager of Washington Public affairs for the font motor co. As Lar As looks go my Mother is a Blond Wilh Olur eyes and i probably have Len Deti toward thai kind of colouring in women. I Hope there is no freudian overtone in Allol Brothers reports it s not Only the son who searches Lor Mother s traits on the wife Hunt. Daughters also seek Shnir mothers when choosing a mate. The real Surprise we did t expect to find irom the studies is the woman also chooses her husband on Iho basis of her Molher s personality. You marry your Molher s personally because Molher is first love when mothers Are hypercritical about children s Tove no rests. Oll Spring go reeling in the other direction. Warns Brothers. Ii a Mol Hor is premature in pinpoint log All the hangs Hiil Are Druru Wilh thai person it solid Lite i the relationship much longer it s Iho Ron Udo Jhc i syndrome if she pushes Shell push the son or daughter Inlo holding Vicky Ferraro s 38-year-old journalist son seems to be headed Laward Peron in Bachelor Hood bul the Del Ray Fla. Rno Lher says she does t Bug him Al least not lately. I do very much think maybe Tom will never get married but this year i Haven t even spoken about in i think it is solely his business. Just the Way i feel everybody in l College material everybody in l marriage h the Day comes when he does bring Home the woman of his dreams this Mother in t Likely to get Picky. I be met various girls Tom has gone out with and i be liked every single one of them. They were All very Lovely. So if he shows As Good taste in the woman he s going to marry i Don t have anything to when told the Tingle scene is now peppered Wilh lots of men inching toward 40, even beyond Ferraro s voice Breaks into laughter. You mean there s still Hope far him Gerry Dreyfuss had Given up on marrying Oil her actor son. Richard. 38, and like Ferraro had accepted it. Richard had been Wilh Lols of different remembers his Molher. I met most of them i never thought of him As wanting to get married. I think he was a Little turned off to marriage when i was divorced Afler 38 years of marriage she says. Richard Dreyfuss Star of Down and out in Beverly Hilts is currently working on a documentary on the . Constitution. His Mother says Richard s achievement have made her very when he called with some news one morning three years ago. She remembers being very shocked. He said. Mom i met a woman and i want to maa maa maa i said. Richard if you can t say it you can t do it then about 10 that night he called me Back again and said mom her name is Jeremy rain and we re going to gel married and i want you to meal her and he handed her the Dreyfuss who lives in los Angeles Calls rain the Best thing that Ever happened to the couple Are parents to a 2-year-old daughter and Are expecting again in june she in l show business. She is nol a says the Mother in Law. Most of the younger women in Hollywood seem to me to be unstable Lor some reason. Jeremy is Down to Earth. She is Beautiful and does l know in. She fit right into lha Page 17o
