When actress- director- producer Penny Marshall was a child, she
wanted nothing more than to go outside and play with the
neighborhood kids. A tomboy, she envisioned becoming an athlete
one day. Her mother had something else in mind.  With a dance
school in the cellar of her Bronx apartment building, Marjorie
Marshall tried to fashion young Penny into a tap dancer. It
didn't take.  What did stick was a little of the craziness and
humor that filled their household, which included big brother,
and now filmmaker, Garry Marshall ("Pretty Woman") and sister
Ronny. "She did influence all of us," Penny Marshall says of her
mother. "She had a great sense of humor."  Marshall, 68, is in a
mood to contemplate her past upon the release of her breezy new
memoir, "My Mother Was Nuts," in which she chronicles her two
failed marriages (including one to director Rob Reiner), her
friendships with Carrie Fisher and John Belushi ("He was
brilliantly talented. He would walk down the street and people
would hand him (drugs) and h