Word: hannah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with a system that "many people say is bigger than Paramount's wardrobe department." Charlotte Ford hired New York Expert Mario Buatta to design her new closet with printed fabric resembling Matisse motifs, but she still hangs an overflow elsewhere in the apartment. In another Buatta supercloset. Author Hannah Pakula has installed a chaise longue, an exercise machine and several other comforts. The author spends many hours reading and writing in her clothes-lined retreat. This way may lie a new departure in fashion: clothes to wear in the closet. -By MichaelDemarest. Reported by Mark Seal/Dallas and Tara Weingarten/Los...
...movie's plot revolves around the sexual involvement (the script makes it hard to call it love) between a conventional teenaged girl and an Angry Young Man Tracey Prescott (Daryl Hannah) is a pretty, blonde teenager from a wealthy family. She is surrounded by boring, anxious people, from a standardized younger brother (Billy Jacoby) to an overbearing, money-minded mother (Lois Smith) to a bland boyfiend. Randy Daniels (Adam Baldwin), who wears expensive sweaters and is class president...
This might have worked if Foley and scriptwriter Chris Columbus hadn't been so heavy-handed Hannah as Tracey gives a fairly convincing portrayal of limp, youthful resentment. Unfortunately, the script prevents her from displaying any other emotions as she faces the choice between her institutionalized life and the freedom of being with Rourke--choosing differently each chance she gets. Tracey's life at home and in school is represented so shallowly--her bedroom, for example, is decorated in flowers like a cheap innocence metaphor--that her indecision seems fickle rather than agonized. Her passion for Rourke takes...
Three performances particularly stand out: James Houghton as Brick. Hannah Cox as Maggie, and Jon King as Big Daddy. Each one-envelops his character, letting the lines prompt his actions and reveal his own particular inner turmoil: Houghton's Brick, who is Big Daddy's son and Maggie's husband, drowns himself in alcohol and gradually becomes alive as he is forced to explain why he has turned away from the world and steeped himself in his own self-disgust. Houghton endows Brick with a taut passivity; his physical outlashes stun us with their uncontrollable violence, revealing his character...
...custom of the sharpened axiom continues. Elizabeth Bowen's "Memory is the editor of one's sense of life" is a Shakespearean perception; Peter De Vries' "Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us" belongs with the best of the Edwardians. Hannah Arendt's observation compresses the century down to a sentence: "Power and violence are opposites; where one rules absolutely, the other is absent...