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...peril but not the deep emotional resonance," observes Camille Paglia, the post-feminist author and agitator. "They're driven by gimmicky, high-concept plots. But the center of great women's pictures is the long close-up of a woman's soulful, suffering face as her eyes brim with tears. Today's actresses are too buff and brittle to take that kind of scrutiny...Too many know how to do everything but play real women. If the women-in-jeopardy motif can make filmmakers start to think in deep emotional terms again, then...
...that they are cheap to produce and will fill up hungry, if gullible, patrons. These delights may be washed down with a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice. Or, at least, the six drops of orange juice that were able to squeeze into a small glass filled to the brim with enough ice to sink the Titanic...
...paper doilies. There were also assorted cookies from boxes of Pepperidge Farm’s Entertainment Collection (Milano, Geneva, Bordeaux, Brussels, Lisbon, Chessmen and Chocolate Pirouettes) arranged in enticing circles. The pièce de resistance was a white porcelain bowl with a blue flower pattern filled to the brim with fresh strawberries...
...This was an inside job - a story that could have been written only by a press agent. In the early 40s, Lehman had ground out flackery for the noted press agent Irving Hoffman, who was close to Winchell. A-brim with fascination-repulsion for the Broadway milieu, Lehman wrote a long story about a columnist and a press agent. He sold it to Cosmopolitan. But before the issue hit the stands, Hoffman was leaked (what else?) the story and felt betrayed, not just for himself but what he saw as calumny toward the powerful columnist. To Lehman, the complaint must...
...audience on a ride from Orange County to Stanford University, with a few sentimental pitstops along the way. Along with an incredibly funny screenplay by Mike White (the cutting-edge scribe of the critically-acclaimed independent film Chuck & Buck), the film boasts an all-star cast, filled to the brim with comedic heavyweights. Catherine O’Hara (Home Alone) plays Shaun’s emotional unstable and marginally alcoholic mother; John Lithgow (Terms of Endearment) plays Shaun’s disapproving and unaffectionate father; and Lily Tomlin (Tea With Mussolini) plays the incompetent guidance counselor. And these are just...