Word: fiorentinos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cinema: A ferocious Linda Fiorentino in The Last Seduction...
There has always been something bracing about such creatures, especially when no whiny attempts are made to justify their malignity. The grace that redeems a wretch like Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) in The Last Seduction is her breathtaking lack of hypocrisy. She's economic woman on an intricate and divinely sociopathic rampage. She just plain wants the money she steals from her husband (Bill Pullman), who obtained it in a drug deal that she had urged on him. She just plain needs to create a new life so she can hide from his wrath. And she just plain must enlist...
...yuppie careerist, prudish housewife | or pouty adolescent, barroom slut or abused bride -- that Bridget won't assume to win this game. Her quick changes are funny. So is her chilly single- mindedness. And so is the eagerness of males, stupefied by lust, to be taken in by her. Fiorentino is ferociously good in the role. If first-time screenwriter Steve Barancik conceived it as a parody of have-it-all feminism, this actress doesn't acknowledge it. She's after the humor of humorlessness, the nuttiness of self-interest untrammeled by sentiment -- and she nails...
MBTA police arrested Peter A. York, 17, of Somerville; Joseph Bates, 18, of Cambridge; and Eric Fiorentino, 17, of Waltham. The three were charged with armed robbery and with assault and battery with a deadly weapon, according to the Globe...
...Fiorentino family of Freeport, N.Y., the debt party of the 1980s is over. Like many U.S. couples, Teresa and Greg Fiorentino both worked, bought a modest house and borrowed heavily on their credit cards to finance a rising standard of living. But after Teresa, 36, quit her job as an airline reservations agent to have children, the Fiorentinos found their debt payments were devouring 65% of their income. A few months ago, they decided to stop using their credit cards. Greg, 45, has joined a savings program, and the couple have vowed to reduce 90% of their debt within...