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...speaking locales. A drinker of Bombay Sapphire gin and Pabst Blue Ribbon beer. Seen on a post-Sunday brunch stroll with distinguished parents. Seen on a Thursday-night binge with associates of questionable character at Whitney’s bar. Not surprising, then, Frances’ four-year love affair with FM, the weekly collision of high and low culture, sophistication and vulgarity, mètier and booya. Her commitment unquestioned, her sanity less certain, Frances was our raging, deadline-enforcing maniac, our late-night production ass-kicker, physically unable to take any crap or listen to our consistently bullshit...
Playing about a decade under her true age (36), Tomei is Natalie, a warmhearted, lower-class single mom who has made two mistakes: marrying an angry rich boy (William Mapother) and then, while separated, taking up with Frank. Theirs is a true love. But the affair crosses class lines. His mother worries openly about it; if the kid persists, he could end up a lobsterman instead of the architect he wants to be. Matt indulges his son; he thinks this is just a phase. Who's right, we'll never know. For Frank is killed. So is, more or less...
...synthetic fabric”); her first book signing, which took place in the men’s underwear department of the Hudson’s Bay department store in 1969 (“I sold two Edible Wom[e]n all day”); the scandalous extramarital affair that began her 30-year-strong marriage to Graeme Gibson (“I stole him away”). Despite all her self-deprecating, hilarious, self-disclosure, the mystery of how Atwood became a writer still remained. True, the events of her life play a large role in the content...
...close to it. Catherine Breillat's Fat Girl, about the rivalry of two sisters, 12 and 15, features a 20-min. scene of foreplay between the 15-year-old and her would-be deflowerer. At the heart, or groin, of the Anglo-French Intimacy is a bluntly staged affair between a man and a woman who exchange no names, no life stories, only bodily fluids. Baise-moi (still playing in theaters and due out on DVD next month) is Thelma & Louise torqued up as a relentless feminist-porno melodrama. The two leads endure severe sexual abuse, then mete out revenge...
DIED. EDWARD BOLAND, 90, influential Democratic Congressman whose amendments opposing the Reagan Administration's support for rebels in Nicaragua set the stage for the Iran-contra affair; in Springfield, Mass...