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...Hammer thrower Tom Lenz, who qualified for the nationals last year, joins Stiles to provide the power in the field events. Otherwise, there are many variables which will figure in the overall field performance...
...Hammer--The Paradise...
DEWITT: Anything with Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. You think I'm joking, right? No, I love those Hammer things. Horror of Dracula: erotic as hell. Fangs into big-busted women in low-cut night gowns...Dracula's a fun guy. They're bringing him back in a new movie with Frank Langella. I snuck into the theater when he was in Boston with it...hated the production, but Langella was terrific-the most cuddlesome vampire ever to suck a jugular. Laurence Olivier will be Van Helsing-I'm gonna be first in line. Then Werner Herzog has remade Murnau...
...Friday is hardly alone. Such recent books as Freeman's Who Is Sylvia? and Signe Hammer's Daughters and Mothers, Mothers and Daughters also dwell on the maternostra theme, and still more of the genre are in the offing. Even Hollywood and television are exploiting mother-daughter tensions. Woody Allen's Interiors and Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata are based on such themes; CBS plans two dramatic specials, one of them starring Bette Davis, tentatively scheduled to be aired on Mother...
...Hammer, a writer and lecturer, says in her book that "women tend to live through and in response to other people." One consequence, she says, is that,"a vicious cycle has developed in which women who were not encouraged to grow up raised daughters who are not encouraged to grow up either." Friday adds that as "the first and lasting model" for their daughters, mothers all too often pass on clinging, dependent attitudes, a fear of sex and an impoverished sense of self...