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During a family vacation in Maine, Rose, then 16, met Joseph Patrick Kennedy, 17. Her father did not at first approve of Kennedy, son of another Irish ward boss, but Rose was in love with Joe, and the two married in 1914. The family grew and moved, following Joe Sr. as he became chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, then head of the Maritime Commission and, in 1937, the first Irish-Catholic American ambassador to Britain...
...shaped--and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific. Douglas, with Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct behind him, knows all about playing male victimization without total loss of amour propre. Moore's ferocity is totally unredeemed, therefore totally riveting. Donald Sutherland as their boss is computer-like: he has an almost-human brain and a silicon chip where his heart should be. They and a very good supporting cast often ground Disclosure in some kind of behavioral honesty, almost turn it into a realistic portrait of the modern American workplace--full of false camaraderie...
...prize at Cannes, gives the best performance in the movie. Her take on Catherine de Medici moves between the campy and the affecting. Those who speak French may have to fight the temptation to imitate her thick Italian accent. Playing Catherine de Medici as a cross between a mafia boss and an overprotective mother, Lisi makes her the only three-dimensional character in the movie...
Admittedly, that's a scary step. Women as a group are not psychologically equivalent to blacks or gays. We may want to overthrow the patriarchal equation between "daddy" and "boss," but inwardly we want daddy to love us too, or what amounts to the same thing for the general public to think we're "nice." Women, and perhaps especially white middle-class women, are trained to believe the only way to win love and approval is to be a good little girl until well into cronehood...
...struck back hard. He announced he would start a rival advertising firm that will probably spirit away some of Saatchi & Saatchi's biggest clients. To add to the retribution, at least seven of the London-based agency's top executives resigned, with three saying they would join their old boss's new enterprise...