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Danielle E. Sherrod '98 was wearing a black Elvira-type ensemble, along with a beaded belly-dancing belt and a metallic purple veil she twirled around to the band music...
When Monica Lewinsky worked in the White House, she had nicknames. One was Elvira, after TV's vampy Mistress of the Dark--a snickering reference to Lewinsky's long and big black hair, her fondness for tight, chest-hugging outfits and her coquettish demeanor. Another sobriquet was the Stalker, inspired by her steadfast rush toward the presidential helicopter whenever its whirr announced a landing. She was a child of Beverly Hills privilege--and the product of a bitterly broken home. She delighted in soap operas and glitter; yet she gravitated toward the political hotbed of Washington...
...vestige of the 80's in which she grew up. "My perverseness made me keep it going," she says. The 80's hair she has maintained nearly into the next millenium serves as a perpetual conversation piece. She has been told that she resembles anyone from the vampire Elvira to white-trash TV mom Peg Bundy to country-western singer Wynona Judd. Which would Hicks most like to be? "Elvira, of course, but I fear I look more like Peg Bundy." Are these comparisons supposed to be compliments or insults? When it comes to Big Hair, the line between...
...WIDERBERG, 66, Swedish writer-director of trenchant films about young outsiders; of undisclosed causes; in Angelholm, Sweden. From his smart, sensitive Raven's End (1963) to the Lolita-in-reverse All Things Fair (1995), Widerberg sympathized with kids who valiantly and vainly fought the system. His 1967 hit Elvira Madigan, a lusciously limned story of love on the run, put Piano Concerto No. 21 on the charts. Mozart never sounded so sexy as when he underscored the doomed nuzzling of Pia Degermark and Thommy Berggren...
...Charles, Robert Bouffier achieves moments of comic mastery as he fumbles over how to deal with his two wives. His expressiveness appears most in his delicious handling of lascivious scenes with the ethereal Elvira, but his incompetent-and-clueless-husband act nonetheless gets old quickly...