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Linda Voss (Melanie Griffith) is your typical late-model feminist heroine -- brave, bright, spirited, sassy and clearly overqualified for her secretarial job. She is also -- what else? -- hopelessly in love with her boss, Ed Leland (Michael Douglas). At once distracted and self-absorbed, he can't see why she wants a promotion, and he's a little too casual about their love affair. On the first score he has a point: the job she aspires to is spying. In Berlin. During World War II. Maybe she is a bit too spunky for her own good. But not for the good...
THIS DESTRUCTIVE TREND has been documented in a variety of feminist books, from Kim Chernin's The Obsession: Overcoming the Tyranny of Slenderness in the 1970s to Naomi Wolf's The Beauty Myth...
Henrik Ibsen wrote his three-act play, Ghosts, in response to the critical furor engendered by his unabashedly pro-feminist play, A Doll's House. Instead of depicting a woman who abandons a condescending husband, Ghosts portrays a resolute female protagonist who suffers the after-effects of loveless marriage...
...mother named her Nora after Ibsen's feminist in A Doll's House, and she certainly slammed the door noisily when leaving her first two marriages. But she and her current husband Nicholas Pileggi are more like Dashiell Hammett's Nick and Nora -- for one thing, they have been making much of their living off of crime...
...people could say of Ephron now, at age 50, what Katharine Hepburn once said of her feminist mother -- that she managed to have it all, career, husband, family and fame. One of the themes of Heartburn the novel, Ephron's best work so far, is that no one can have it all, that life unravels faster than you can weave it back together -- another lesson she learned from her haunted mother. But if, when her movie is released, the critics attack it, that will no doubt be used in future projects to control her life at that stage...