Word: gwen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...there was a single issue that set off Neumann's constituents, it was tax cuts. So heated was the local reaction against the proposed cuts that Neumann took to calling the plan passed by Congress "second best." Said Gwen Daluge, a retired schoolteacher from Janesville: "I'm really angry about the Congress wanting to cut taxes when we have a debt like this. We are so much better off than anybody in the world. I just don't think it would hurt us to not cut taxes right now." In Beloit-the Democratic section of the district that Neumann...
...Payback (Billy Warlock) is "a hero for the common man--part man, part machine--programmed to seek outrageous justice for his clients against those who have done them wrong." An opening sequence introduces viewers to our hero and his attractive hacker sidekick Gwen (Holly Fields). Mr. Payback states his motto, "Don't piss me off!" and his mission, to rectify the evils of society. Then viewers choose from three plot lines, each one more politically correct than the last. In one, a woman has been sexually harrassed; in another, a black man has been fired form his job and cheated...
...each case, predictably enough, it's payback time. Mr. Payback gets on the job, and with the help of the computer-literate Gwen and her pet geese--whose raison d'etre in the film is totally inexplicable --exacts revenge upon the villain responsible for his client's humiliation. The final scene always involves the wronged individual confronting the wrongdoer (as in life itself, the wrongdoer is always a white male) and meting out to him his just desserts, the exact nature of which are determined by audience participation...
...Gwen discovers the adultery in her parents' and siblings' marriages, she begins to question her own decision to marry. At her sister's wedding, Gwyn's father, (played by "Moscow on the Hudson" and "Down and Out in Beverly Hills," writer/director Paul Mazursky), confides to her that he believes her mother (Mia Farrow) is having an affair. Gwyn reassures her father that no one has a better relationship than he and her mother--only to find out the next day that her mother has been seeing Gwyn's grandmother's sexy tatooed Cuban nurse Antonio (Antonio Banderas) without remorse...
...Pretenders, Gwen Davis...