Word: debra
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Amid the throngs of gamblers in Atlantic City, Debra Kim Cohen stood out. A former beauty queen, she dropped thousands of dollars at blackjack tables. Casino managers acknowledged her lavish patronage by plying her with the perks commonly accorded VIP customers: free limo rides, meals, even rooms. Cohen, after all, was a high roller. It apparently did not disturb casino officials that she was also a teenager and -- at 17 -- four years shy of New Jersey's legal gambling...
...Assassins also offers funny, astutely varied glimpses of looniness, the finest being a park-bench chat between attempted assassins of Gerald Ford: Lynette ("Squeaky") Fromme, a Charles Manson disciple who is all passion and intensity; and Sara Jane Moore, a former mental patient, who in Debra Monk's stunning evocation is all matronly giggles and chilling folksiness. In other ably written scenes, Victor Garber brings condescending grandeur to Booth, Terrence Mann finds earnest simplicity in Czolgosz, Greg Germann gives a dorky sweetness to Hinckley, and Jonathan Hadary evokes hysterical egomania in Charles Guiteau, killer of James Garfield...
...call abstinence a fantasy is to stretch even the idea of fantasy," says Steve Anderson, an English teacher at Manhattan's Seward Park High School, who last year taught a student who had lost both her parents and a brother to AIDS. Agrees Debra Haffner, executive director of the Sex Information and Education Council of the U.S.: "It's immoral to say 'Just...
...SHELTERING SKY. Bernardo Bertolucci has made a swank, sexy, bleak and very beautiful film from Paul Bowles' novel of a married couple on an existential quest for romantic catastrophe in North Africa. Debra Winger and John Malkovich powerfully portray the forlorn souls who languish under the desert's pitiless grandeur...
...great unused actress of American film, is the perfect vessel for a woman who must be a piece of baggage on Port's existential tour, then a Florence of Arabia ministering to his illness, then the trophy of an alien prince. "You can always hear the click of Debra's mind," Bertolucci says admiringly...