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...child, she took the slights hard, switching uppers for downers in her stepfather's medicine bottles, just prior to his demise. Now in her late 20s, Rebecca is still mom- crazy: she's married to one of her mother's old lovers and is having a fling with a drag queen who impersonates Becky. When Becky returns to Spain after years in Mexico, the lover-husband dies too. Welcome back to the loopy world of Pedro Almodovar. In this deadpan update of the old Lana Turner weepie Portrait in Black, the writer-director of Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down...
...DRAG RACING ON SNOW...
Pity the mothers of Olympic speed skiers, who cannot rest as easily as those whose children took up curling. The heart-pounding Alpine sport -- to be introduced at the Games this year as a demonstration event -- is skiing's equivalent of drag racing: no turns, no brakes. Gleaming in aerodynamic suits and Darth Vader-like helmets, the skiers rocket down a steep, hard-packed 1.08-mile course at 120 m.p.h. or more...
...couple of the duets are silly fun: the postwaltz era of male dominance in dance ("Besides the obvious indignity of him dictating the moves, how the hell were you supposed to know what he would do next?") and a number with the wonderfully wry O'Day in crude drag, set to Tammy Wynette's country-song-of- the-month, Stand By Your...
...being met with a grimace from the Palestinians. Their leadership knows that the current peace talks are the only means by which Palestinians may achieve a measure of self-rule. But any perception that the U.S. will subsidize Israel's settlement plans could lead the Palestinians to drag their feet in the peace process and subject those who favor the talks to criticism from rejectionist Arabs...