Word: harridans
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...1940s brought a plague of these film-noir harpies, from Gene Tierney in Leave Her to Heaven to Barbara Stanwyck in almost anything. Edgar G. Ulmer's relentless Detour (1946) cast Ann Savage as a harridan from hell -- the worst pickup of poor Tom Neal's life -- whose grating voice is, finally and poetically, strangled by a telephone cord. And as feminism found its voice in the early '70s, Hollywood shouted back. In Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971), Jessica Walter is a woman who has a brief affair with a Carmel, Calif., disk jockey (Eastwood...
...elfin yuppie of TV's Family Ties, wears an earring and says naughty words but still looks as cute as a Disney toy. His fans won't forgive this film; they will ignore it. Rowlands, when she finally gets the chance, locates strength and heartbreak in her harridan matriarch. But Jett, rock star in her first movie role, is terrific. A sign in Light of Day reads PERFORMANCE IS A REFLECTION OF ATTITUDE. With her melodramatic dark eyes and mesmerizing surliness, Jett has the attitude and gives the performance. Try watching someone else when she is on screen...
...popular, and distorted, view, says Klein, Mom is either asexual and saintly or a devouring harridan who lives vicariously through her son and whose traumatizing influence is responsible for "everything that goes wrong, from failure in school to homosexuality." Such skewed portraits deny the richness and the intensity of the connection. "Indeed," says Klein, "the tie is stronger than that between father and son and father and daughter. Fathers can mitigate or reinforce a mother's views, but she is the life-giver and, even in today's changing society, still the chief nurturing figure in the family...
...some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious serpent, a harridan and a trollop...
...opening last June, all the frantic arranging and joining suddenly appeared to be seamless. "I felt I could even walk into a scene I wasn't normally part of," remarks Suzanne Bertish, a young actress who does hilarious turns as a comely, coy actress and a provincial harridan. "The acting was that deep, that explored...