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...production, directed by Simon Curtis, is spare and uncompromising. Black-and-white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TELEVISION: Golden, But No Glitter PBS Takes a Fresh Look At | 10/24/1994 | See Source »

...Just Like a Woman" draws no laughs compared to the flamboyant fun of "Priscilla, Queen of the Desert" and the slapstick humor of "Mrs. Doubtfire." This serious film tells the true story of Englishwoman Monica Jay (Julie Walters), a lonely, fortysomething Middlesex housewife who becomes involved with Gerald (Adrian Pasdar), an American, a heterosexual and a sometime transvestite...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: 'Just Like a Woman' is Just a Drag | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

After a few awkward encounters, things progress predictably. They make love (rather quickly, one notes with disappointment for Monica) and after a long, painful silence, Adrian tells Monica that he's a cross-dresser. The housewife giggles for a spell but soon enough she accepts Gerald for what he is--a straight man who enjoys cross-dressing...

Author: By Sarah C. Dry, | Title: 'Just Like a Woman' is Just a Drag | 10/6/1994 | See Source »

...saga began in August 1993, when Adrian Guthrie and Simon Roberts, both 17, and raised in Klawock, ordered a pizza in Everett, Washington. When Domino's Pizza deliveryman Timothy Whittlesey showed up, Guthrie distracted him and Roberts hit him repeatedly with a baseball bat, leaving him, his assailant now admits, "kinda in convulsions." A bystander saw the teens removing Whittlesey's beeper, $40 and the pizza. The two Tlingits pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery. Superior Court Judge James Allendoerfer was expected to assign prison terms of up to 5 1/2 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Banishing Judge | 9/12/1994 | See Source »

Seniors: Christian Collins, Adrian Ezra, Josh Horwitz, Jon Karlen, Jon Pratt, Daniel Watts, David White

Author: By Sean D. Wissman, | Title: `Special' Year for Men's Squash | 6/9/1994 | See Source »

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