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Sullivan's roommate, Angela M. Delichatsios '95, avoids coffee (she doesn't like the taste) but drinks enough Diet Coke to make up for it: around six cans a day. Like her roommate, she smokes a daily pack of cigarettes as well...
...think it's a very positive thing for the law school," said Law School student Angela Payne '92. "We've been striving for diversity in the faculty and hopefully this is a good sign not only in terms of women but in terms of minority professors...
Produced by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, the creators of thirtysomething -- a show that also skillfully portrayed the interior lives of affluent young people -- My So-Called Life depicts Angela's turmoil at home and in school. In a leafy suburb we find Angela perpetually at odds with her mother and father. She wants from her parents what all teenagers want, the freedom to go to a rave or dye her hair a fiery red. At school she is torn between an enduring affection for her childhood friend Sharon -- a well- behaved clarinetist dressed to her socks in pink...
...Angela's endearingly superficial infatuation with Jordan as well as the rest of her conflicts could have been culled from Seventeen's advice columns, yet the writers of My So-Called Life manage to create richly moving story lines from the predictable materials of teenage life. When her mother (Bess Armstrong) asks Angela to take part in a mother-daughter fashion show, Angela is contemptuous of the idea. Mrs. Chase thinks her daughter feels above it all, but in fact Angela is too uncomfortable in her body to stride alongside a mother she views as stunningly pretty. Eventually, Angela reveals...
Like the thirtysomething characters, Angela is intensely analytical. Her appeal, in fact, is that she is so perceptive and articulate for her age. Yet at times the insights the writers attribute to her seem implausible. When faced with the chance to be alone with Jordan, she doesn't giggle or express vague fear but reasons that she may need the fantasy of her obsession more than the reality of him. "If you make it real," she says, "it's not yours anymore." That is an intriguing perception, but not one likely to be made by a girl who still cries...