Babysitter Left News Today

The Revisited series looks back at the 1991 cult classic Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, starring Christina Applegate and Keith Coogan

>> to make the law review in those days you had to be in the top 25 academically of 535, 540. her second year she makes the law review. so the mere fact marked her as something special. >> it turned out that i did very well the first year, and i attribute it to having something very important in my life that wasnt the law books. i came to harvard as the mother of a 14-month-old child. id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoo...

Way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoon our babysitter left, and that was my childs hours until she went to sleep. playing with my daughter gave me a respite from the kind of work i was doing at law school, and i think made me more sane. >> we knew that marty was ill. we just knew he had his own battle. and ruth is now caring for both marty and jany. >> marty in his third year of law school had cancer. and days there was no chemotherapy, only massive radiation. he would go for the rad...

>> to make the law review in those days, you had to be in the top 25 academically of 535, 540. her second year, she makes the law review. so the mere fact marked her as something special. >> it turned out that i did very well the first year, and i attributed it to having something very important in my life that wasnt law books. i came to harvard as the mother of a 14-month-old child. id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoon...

You look like a little twerp. >> to make "the law review" in those days you had to be in the top 25 academically of 535, 540. her second year she makes the law review so the mere fact marked her as something special. >> it turned out that i did very well the first year, and i attributed that to having something very important in my life that wasnt the law books. i came to harvard as the mother of a 14-month-old child. id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt wa...

>> to make "the law review" in those days you had to be in the top 25 academically of 535, 540. her second year she makes the law review so the mere fact marked her as something special. >> it turned out that i did very well the first year, and i attributed that to having something very important in my life that wasnt the law books. i came to harvard as the mother of a 14-month-old child. id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afte...

Id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoon, our babysitter left, and that was my childs hours till she went to sleep. playing with my daughter gave me a respite from the kind of work i was doing at law school and i think made me more sane. >> we knew that marty was ill. we just knew he had his own battle, and ruth is now caring for both marty and janie. >> marty, in his third year of law school, had a virulent cancer and days...

Id go to school, study as hard as i can in a very concentrated way. i didnt waste any time. 4:00 in the afternoon, our babysitter left, and that was my childs hours till she went to sleep. playing with my daughter gave me a respite from the kind of work i was doing at law school and i think made me more sane. >> we knew that marty was ill. we just knew he had his own battle, and ruth is now caring for both marty and janie. >> marty, in his third year of law school, had a virulent cancer and days...