Word: bossed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George (Hoskins), recently released from jail where he was taking the rap for his boss, takes a job as a driver for Simone, a "tall, thin, black tart," (Cathy Tyson) who drags him into her personal tragedy, a desperate search for her friend Cathy, a 15-year-old prostitute and heroin addict...
...Galatea or a Bride of Frankenstein, come love, lust, violence and art. Simone (Cathy Tyson), a chic London call girl, understands this impulse in men and knows how to indulge it to her profit. Well, it's a living. But to George (Bob Hoskins), assigned by a mob boss to be Simone's chauffeur, it seems a living hell. How can she endure these rough hands and tawdry nightdreams? How can she not respond to his courtly Cockney love? Simone does respond, in the only way she knows, by using him. She sends her squire out to play knight, searching...
...Rehnquist was the surprising author of a high-court decision recognizing that sexual harassment in the workplace is a violation of the civil rights laws. Rehnquist tried to strike a balance in the case, which involved a woman who said she had been harassed by sexual advances by her boss at a Washington bank. Writing for a unanimous majority, Rehnquist ruled that businesses could be held liable for sexual harassment but that they could defend themselves with such evidence as an employee's "provocative" dress or conduct...
Adding to the hilarity is the dean of students, Mr. Rooney (Jeffrey Jones), who has decided that Ferris, the darling of his school, has made a fool of him one too many times. Rooney is modeled on a mixture of Inspector Clouseau and his boss, who, as you may remember, in one movie aspired to kill his clueless detective (you even get to hear a refrain of the Pink Panther theme...
Though Rooney doesn't end up in a funny farm like Clouseau's boss did, he does end up covered with dirt, bitten by Ferris's dog, and beaten up by his younger sister. Jones, who spends much of his time leering with pathological hatred of Ferris, gives a fine performance as the hapless dean. Of the other members of the cast, Alan Ruck is superlative in his supporting role, and Jennifer Grey is also good as Ferris's bratty and jealous younger sister...