Word: businesswoman
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...Stiles says it's anything but. "You have to really work to find the humanity of characters in films," she says, "because they're removed from the audience." Her breakout performance came the following year in the critically acclaimed (if commercially unspectacular) The Business of Strangers, playing a businesswoman who sets out to revenge herself on all men by - shades of Oleanna - accusing one of rape. Her malevolent turn earned Stiles comparisons with Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. Stiles, raved the New York Times reviewer Stephen Holden, "brings a focused intelligence and vocal command to her portrayal that suggest...
...Roberto Zucco wraps up, the creators of Top Girls will be putting the final touches onto their show, which runs from April 8-17. The play’s conceit involves a successful early ’80s businesswoman who invites a number of literary and historical figures to dinner to celebrate a recent promotion. The ensemble includes a Japanese courtesan, a character from Canterbury Tales, a female pope, a woman from a Bruegel painting and a Victorian world traveler. Largely set around a single dining table, the six women discuss their past exploits, often finding themselves faced with...
...crime, while wrong, is a small hiccup compared to the appalling corporate scandals that have plagued the business world during the past several years. Yet to many Americans, this trial was more about reprimanding this cunning businesswoman for her personality than about punishing her actual criminal offense...
...crime, while wrong, is a small hiccup compared to the appalling corporate scandals that have plagued the business world during the past several years. Yet to many Americans, this trial was more about reprimanding this cunning businesswoman for her personality than about punishing her actual criminal offense...
...know place her as a key contender, despite her not having that essential ingredient: her own TV show. "The next Martha? Who knows. Not impossible," says Ruth Reichl, the editor in chief of Gourmet magazine. "She's the only one who is a cook, a stylist and a businesswoman." Barbara Fairchild, the editor in chief of Bon Appetit, is equally impressed. She describes Hay as "such a down-to-earth person. She's not Martha, and I think a lot more people can identify with her. She struck me as someone who would be pretty easy to get along with...