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...strong, Scorsese can elaborate on it without looking self-indulgent. One visual strategy: he plants X's everywhere, on the walls and in diagonal grouping of characters, to suggest the crisscrossing of Billy and Colin, and of the four lines of conflict (Billy and Colin and their respective father figures) that keep converging and colliding. Sometimes, in an obvious visual correlative, the X's are in pairs: a double cross...
...Speaking of your father, in the book you write that you've come to terms with the sexual and physical abuse you suffered in his hands...
...There has been a reckoning. What happened with my father happened - and it's done. I'm done. It's over. I've left my father's house. For the first 50 years of my life, I was in that house. But this is my life now and I feel like I've been able to regain the parts of my father that I loved. He was ferocious about honesty, he had a ferocious integrity around money and he was openminded to all religions. These are good things and I'm grateful for them...
...could have picked the word "vulva," but it seemed much more difficult. (Laughs.) I believe in the power of language. When I was a child, my father called me a slut all the time. I came to believe that and went out in the world and behaved like that. When I started doing The Vagina Monologues, I realized how impossible it was for women to say the word. I would see the disgust, the shame, the embarrassment. The vagina is smack in the center of our bodies, yet it is a place that most women felt ashamed of talking about...
...years, said she attended for the entertainment. “I came because I wanted to see the Republicans get crushed,” she said. “All you have to do is see that one person has a brain and one person has a father-in-law.” Rumors have swirled that Firenze’s father-in-law, Angelo R. Firenze, a Belmont selectman, forced his daughter-in-law into the race to spite his fellow selectman Brownsberger. The elder Firenze responded to the claims, saying, “that’s bullshit...