Word: fran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town politics with equal, because measured, intensity. While still a freshman in law school, he ran for the newly established Brookline Redevelopment Authority, a body reflecting the old suburb's continuing resistance to rapid urbanization. He was defeated, despite the skilled campaign work of a fellow law student, F.X. (Fran) Meaney...
...them on a single day. For some, Warhol's vast collection was a monument to the materialism that the artist enshrined in his Campbell Soup can and Brillo pad artworks. For others, it was a microcosm of one man's obsessive greed. Either way, marveled Writer Fran Lebowitz, wandering around in the nearly two acres of memorabilia was "like being in a theme park...
...central character is Paul (William Converse-Roberts), a young, success-driven banker. We see him making connections at cocktail parties, bad-mouthing fellow-workers to his boss and jetting to exotic lands to work out deals. His significant other, Fran (Alice Manning), is just as stereotypical (but then, don't they always come in twos). She feels her pink-collar job as a graphics artist fails to stimulate her intellect and is unsatisfied with her romantic life. So Fran sleeps with...Peter (Peter Crombie), Paul's old '60s throwback friend, who at least talks of the old idealism even...
...three horsemen could cause calamities like the stock market crash it is this cast of characters. They offer every tired cliche that has been marketed by a dozen writers for the yuppie generation. For fans of Tama Janowitz, Fran bewails her inability to leave Paul because she'll be without a decent place to live. For Jay McInerney aficionados, there's cocaine. For the fashion-conscious, there's braces. And of course, we couldn't forget the piped-in classic hits that accompany each scene change...
...Susanne Kohl N Y Alissa Land Y Y Bernard Lee Y Y Kenneth Lee N Y Ron Lee (absent) (absent) Jonathan Leff N N Jimmy Lew N Y Ted Liazos Y Y Frank Lockwood Y Y Barbie Looney N N Teresa Lopes N N Evan Mandery (abstain) (abstain) Fran Mastroianni (absent) (absent) Mike Mathieu Y N Chris Medgalia N N Jane Mendez N N Marcus Mitchell (absent) (absent) Matt Newlin N N Beth Ortner Y Y Lori Outzs Y Y Ed Palleson (absent) (absent) Greg Pastore (absent) (absent) Josh Preven N Y Aaron Richmond N Y Jill Rosenfield...