Word: beau
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Former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell and former U.S. Rep. Beau Boulter (R-Tex.) are among the six new fellows who will offer study groups this spring...
...sexuality at the University of Colorado, moving in with David Press, the Jewish student who sold her his Chevette. When she intimates the seriousness of her relationship to her parents, her mother is shuttled off to Denver to rescue her from marrying a `non'; if Feroza married her beau, not only would David not be able to convert, but Feroza could no longer remain a Parsi. Variations on Feroza's crisis abound on any college campus or in any American city and here Sidhwa's rewriting of The Immigrant Experience is welcomed...
...film are never portrayed as representatives of their sex; in fact, all of the mothers go on to marry decent Asian men. One scene prominently features a tender father poignantly sharing memories about his wife with his daughter. Another scene shows one of the women with her new Asian beau, a man whom another man honors with the ultimate in masculine praise--he calls him a "cowboy" when his girlfriend acknowledges his virility...
...best comedic turn is by Chris Farley as Ronnie, the honobsessed (oversexed) beau of Connie. In a movie about prissy, controlled aliens with symmetrical cones on their heads, Farley is perfectly unkempt and asymmetrical. He almost steals the film...
...film is more than just a clever satire of media overkill. Ritchie assembles a vivid, sharply drawn gallery of small-town characters: Beau Bridges as Wanda's unwilling co-conspirator, a hardhat burdened with a messy past and a loony wife (Swoosie Kurtz); Elizabeth Ruscio as the rival mom, no less competitive but not as imaginative; and Matt Frewer as Wanda's drudge of a lawyer. All that and a bouncy country score by Lucy Simon too. True or not, it's positively terrific...