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...school; she rails against her mother's lifestyle but, after that token comment about it being bourgeois, happily joins in on the dinner party. Some of this could have been alleviated had Tess been played in a more light-hearted, tongue-in-cheek manner (as possibly Wasserstein intended.) However, Debra Eisenstadt gives a heavy-handed performance as the sulky daughter, exacerbating Tess's tendency to self-parody...
...feature-film maker, Brooks is just as determined to hold on to his people. Terms of Endearment -- his first film as writer-director, which in 1984 earned him three Oscars, including one for Best Picture -- begins with the birth of the Debra Winger character and ends after her death. Broadcast News, his delicately furious 1987 comedy about network infotainment, opens when the star newsfolk are kids and ends seven years after the climax. His ultimate film would be the life story of everyone on this planet -- painful emotional reality, but with great jokes. As a writer...
...Hollywood the honey drippers are legion. As for the blue-eyed truth tellers -- those strange, spiky creatures who might be avoided and ought to be cherished -- they could all be called Debra Winger...
Fortunately, Richard Attenborough came to the same conclusion. In casting Shadowlands, the director was looking for "an actress who in her own personality had some of the feisty, slightly abrasive elements of Joy Gresham. I knew of Debra's 'difficult' reputation -- of being quite a girl, as we say at home. So I said, 'I don't mind if you slap me around the head -- if at the end of the day what appears on the screen is what we all want.' And of course what happened was that she absolutely came up with the goods...
Cinema: To tell the truth, Debra Winger cannot tell...