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...course President Bartlet on The West Wing is free to thus sully himself. Even on a show with a feminist premise, it seems, TV is not quite ready to treat powerful women as it treats powerful men. The show's creator, Rod Lurie, probably just meant to make Allen the enemy of politics as usual. But it's a rough message to send to Hillary--or Condi Rice or any other woman who will have to rely on politics as usual, not a contrived TV plot, to become President. And who faces the sexist paradox: if you get ahead...
That take-charge attitude was modern but not feminist. Garbo didn't represent a different sex from men. She was a different species, an emissary from a higher world of thought and feeling. In her one indisputably great film, Camille, she bestows love on the youthful Armand (Robert Taylor) as a gift from the gods; and, with her anguished, rapturous death, she leaves it with him. Her performance raises melodrama to a feature-length epiphany. No actress today could play a courtesan's self-sacrifice at such a high and perfect pitch. None would dare...
...does it astonish in its insights. The transaction between a hooker and a john is not complex. The women are justifiably contemptuous of their clients, who are mostly in wan pursuit of dismal fantasies. To imply that this is a paradigm of the male-female relationship is closer to feminist propaganda than to home truth...
Unbeknownst to me, it was spawned by the death of my father. It's about a literature professor teaching King Lear from a strong feminist perspective who accuses a male student of hers, an athlete, of plagiarism. It's a case of reverse discrimination, but it's larger than that. Her youngest daughter is leaving home for college. Her father has a form of dementia, and she's sort of Cordelia to her father's Lear. She's looking at political beliefs she formed 30 years ago that she thought would be the dominant beliefs in her life...
...That sense of ease dignifies even his most forgettable roles. There's also something gracious in his reserve - and it's perhaps no accident that his best work has been with feminist directors like Jane Campion, where he has allowed the leading lady to shine. As Judy Davis told Time a few years back, "he's lovely to work with, very easy-tempered, rather an urbane chap." Blokes like him too. "He's a fantastic transformer," says director Woods. "But when he comes out of the moment and you talk to him, what's unusual...