Word: frump
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...complemented by an imaginative set, which suggests the salons and bedrooms of upperclass chateaux. The period costumes are similarly impressive, and fashion reveals much about the social situation of the characters in the play. At one point, La Marquise de Mertueil remarks that La Presidente de Tourvel is a frump, with her "bodice up to her ears in case you might catch a glimpse of a square inch of flesh." The tense music and occasional operatic singing that bridges the scenes is also a nice touch, and prevents the pauses between scenes from becoming awkward...
Midler says she wanted Hawn's part because Hawn got to wear the best clothes, while her character was more of a frump. "I was the workhorse of the trio," she laments. "I didn't have any glamour at all." But Midler says she doesn't mind playing her age; the hard part is getting a chance to do it. "It's been pretty dry," she says; after all, Hollywood has not in recent history found the issues of middle-aged women to be particularly absorbing. But, Midler adds, "the phone rings for a while after a big hit like...
Bette Midler, the designated frump in The First Wives Club, stares at Goldie Hawn's body with mixed feelings: envy for its sleekness and disdain for the work needed to maintain it. All those hours logged on the Stairmaster: "You climb and you climb, and you don't get anywhere." Why, Midler might be referring to women movie stars and women's pictures. In Hollywood it's one step up, two steps back, and sometimes you fall...
Captains: Holly Leitzes, '96 Ellen Frump...
...This was the most fun I've had since I started [playing hockey]," co-captain Ellen Frump said. "It was a little disappointing, but overall I had a great time...