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...from Bombay. Also attending the birthday dinner are Sara's rebellious cliche of a daughter Tess, Tess' improbable Lithuanian resistance fighter boyfriend Tom, and Pfeni's bisexual boyfriend Geoffrey. A stuffed shirt Englishperson makes a brief appearance but he is mainly there as contrast to Mervyn, the lovable faux furrier from Brooklyn, who arrives at Sara's house to give something to Geoffrey and stays for dinner...
Harvard Film Archive. Carpenter Center.$5 for students. "The Photograph" at 3 and 9 p.m.Another allegorical depiction of the politicalreality in Greece during the militarydictatorship. Young llias finds himself in Pariswhere, working with solitary Gerasimus, he learnsthe art of the furrier. The old emigrant falls inlove with the unknown young girl appearing on apost card sent to llias from Greece. They bothlong to return home-for different reasons-whilecontinuing to live together in Paris, developing anew relationship which turns into a modern versionof an ancient Greek tragedy. The search forFelicity gradually leads to crime and catastrophe,reflecting the inhuman aspect...
...furor has also hit the media. A recent segment of the popular TV series L.A. Law involved a furrier who sued an animal-rights group for ruining his business. The show aired gruesome video clips of animals caught in brutal leg traps. On an upcoming episode of Designing Women, narcissistic Suzanne Sugarbaker is mauled by anti-fur activists. When Atlanta disk jockey Scott Woodside this month mentioned that he had bought his wife a mink coat, listeners deluged his station with calls. The result was an informal poll in which the anti-fur forces carried...
...animal-rights threat, the Fur Information Council of America last month launched an ad campaign stressing freedom of choice: "Today fur. Tomorrow leather. Then wool. Then meat." Bernard Groger, co-publisher of the trade magazine Fur World, says, "Nobody can tell the American woman what to wear." Warns Seattle furrier Nicholas Benson: "You're seeing signs of terrorism. People are afraid to wear furs on the streets because of what might happen...
With the support of fellow businessmen, Furrier Edward Hamilton threatened to bus vagrants to the Goose Hollow Inn, a campy tavern owned by none other than Hizzoner the mayor. Though Clark denies that the threat of unwanted customers had anything to do with his change of heart, last week he urged the city commissioners to lift...