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Perils lurk for the male thriller writer giddy enough to cast a woman as the hero of a biff-bam adventure series. Just how hard can she bop the bad guys without coming off as an ape in drag? And how much can she fiddle with makeup or fret over runny panty hose before a reader of either sex decides that yeah, yeah, too much verisimilitude is unreal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: THIS DICK IS A JANE | 6/30/1997 | See Source »

Most of the time, it must be fun to be MICHELLE PFEIFFER. But sometimes it can be a big drag. Like now. A Michigan plastics-factory manager, Lawrence Booker, claiming to be the father of Pfeiffer's adopted daughter Claudia Rose, has filed suit for $75,000, and he asserts that Pfeiffer and husband DAVID E. KELLEY lifted portions of his script Barrio Kids for the film Dangerous Minds. Bunch of hooey, says Pfeiffer's publicist. The adoption was closed, so Pfeiffer doesn't know who the biological parents are and they don't know who got their child...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jun. 16, 1997 | 6/16/1997 | See Source »

...moment, Oppenheimer talks about dressing in drag at a protest to make a point and describes how he infiltrated a neo-Nazi group by pretending he was an alien abductee. Then, it's on to his year off as modern day troubadour in Calcutta and the filmmaking he will pursue while on his Marshall Scholarship next year...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Oppenheimer Commands Non-Linear Universe | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

...center of the protest in a government class the fall of 1995, when he dressed in drag to rail against Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. '53 for his anti-gay comments at a prominent Colorado trial, his disdain for women's studies and his support of the controversial The Bell Curve...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Oppenheimer Commands Non-Linear Universe | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

Oppenheimer says that he picked up some of the activist tactics he used at Harvard, like the protest in drag in Mansfield's class, while in London...

Author: By Marios V. Broustas, | Title: Oppenheimer Commands Non-Linear Universe | 6/5/1997 | See Source »

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