课时作业(二十三) [必修5 Unit 3 Life in the future]
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Playwright Bertolt Brecht, known for The Threepenny Opera, once said, “From the start it has been the theatre's business to entertain people…it needs no other passport than fun.” My mother would have __1__. She didn't know Brecht, but she always said the __2__ should be to entertain people, and make them __3__ hard.
Born in 1910, my mother was the first director I ever met. Even from a young age she was an entertainer who thought p erforming was not just a hobby or even a profession but a way of living that was as __4__ as breathing or eating.
When I __5__ and moved to Hollywood as an adult, I would later create 14 primetime TV shows and __6__ 17 movies. During my five decades in show business, I never forgot my mother's advice to find the humor in __7__. I never wanted to __8__ the world. I wanted to entertain the world and not put people to sleep. If my mom had been born at a(n) __9__ time in history she might have become a stage actress or a performer herself. Instead, she groomed my two sisters, Penny Marshall and Ronny Marshall, and I to work in the __10__ of entertainment.
She __11__ a kind of power and respect from her basement as a director that even Orson Welles and Martin Scorsese would find enviable. I will never stop __12__ my mother' s message, and I will never stop missing her. __13__， as a present to my mother I built The Marjorie Ward Marshall Dance Center at my alma mater, Northwestern University. Whenever I visit the building it helps __14__ me that to entertain people and make them laugh is what my own __15__ has been all about.
