Word: heiress
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...least while the movie's on. Glenn Close as his ferociously virginal sister has to work pretty near Mel Brooks country (Remember Cloris Leachman in Young Frankenstein?), but she keeps burrowing toward the character's repressed pain -- and quite touchingly reveals it. And if Ryder is the headstrong heiress of a thousand movies, the simple clarity of her playing redeems the cliche...
DEATH DISCOVERED. SCOTT DOUGLAS, 38, husband of murdered newspaper heiress Anne Scripps Douglas; an apparent suicide; in New York. Douglas disappeared three months ago after the bludgeoning death of his wife, leaving his car idling on an upstate bridge. The family believed he had faked his own suicide. The discovery of his body on the banks of the Hudson River proves otherwise...
...earnestly explores the Eastern and Western concepts of honor and duty as they play out in Kai's relations with his family, in a romance with an Asian- American heiress and especially at West Point, where Kai is recruited to uncover a cheating scandal. These plots never intersect, but with pungent humor and a subtle working of the themes of his title, Lee still manages to combine them into a powerful coming-of-age story...
...beginning of the movie, my friend leaned over and whispered "What if the whole movie is this chase?" Well, he was right; the movie begins with a guy kidnapping a babelicious heiress and hitting the road for Mexico in her car, and that's it, the chase keeps up until the movie ends. Oh, what a devious way to undermine the function of the Chase in film! Wait until the French get a hold of this! What we get is a surreal and paradoxical mix of "high-speed" vibes (mostly due to speedy cuts from shot to shot) and incredibly...
...other national pavilions, the best is the American one, showing sculpture by Louise Bourgeois. Now 81 and at the top of her form, Bourgeois is the chief heiress of Surrealist obsession in America. Though her work is sometimes overpraised for feminist reasons, it carries a deep strand of % recollection interwoven with sexual fantasy and dreams of vengeance, refracted through strange uses of material. Included in the Venice show are some of her recent cage sculptures, including Cell (Choisy), a harsh essay on memory: inside an iron-mesh enclosure is a pink marble effigy of her childhood home in France, where...