Word: heiress
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...arrest brings with it a history lesson and a trip through radical America. In February 1974, a handful of urban guerrillas calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped publishing heiress Patricia Hearst in Berkeley, Calif. Two months into her abduction, Hearst became the armed S.L.A. operative "Tanya" whose image was captured by security cameras at bank heists. In May 1974, the S.L.A. was decimated after a cataclysmic shoot-out with the Los Angeles police. At about this time, police say, Soliah, actress, part-time waitress and best friend of a slain S.L.A. member, joined the movement after surviving guerrillas reluctantly...
...Bronto Crane Academy," says MARK ADDY (the chubby guy in The Full Monty), who, with the help of two dialect coaches, is playing Fred. "They live in a trailer that's just a pigsty." The movie will answer several burning Flintstone questions: How did blue-collar Fred win heiress Wilma Slaghoople (KRISTEN JOHNSON)? How did Barney Rubble (STEPHEN BALDWIN) meet Betty O'Shale (JANE KRAKOWSKI)? And where did Dino come from? Alas, the etymology of "Yabba-dabba doo" will remain untold...
Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is a sinister sort of comedy. Antonio, a wealthy merchant whose monies are invested in risky ventures overseas, lends out the sum of 3,000 ducats so that his friend Bassanio can court the rich heiress Portia. To get the cash, Antonio must borrow it from the Jewish moneylender Shylock. Shylock agrees to lend him the sum for three months but demands as his bond a pound of Antonio's flesh. A contract is drawn up, signed and sealed, and misery descends on both parties. The mutual hatred bound up in a loan under...
Catch the last night of "Charlie's Angels in the Flaming Cave of the Tobacco Heiress" at the Dollhouse Theatre. The show is touted as a "musical adventure in stupidity" based on Aaron Spelling's jiggly '70s television series. Call 266-8511 for ticket details...
...Heiress (1949). A once-bitten, twice-shy Olivia De Havilland as the target of Montgomery Clift?s advances -- couldn?t she tell from the mustache? William Wyler got a great turn from De Havilland and strikes a poignant blow for spinsters everywhere...