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...There are always fewer films for women than for men, across the board," says Lange, 45, who scooted back to her farm in central Virginia the day after her triumph. "Good scripts are as rare as hen's teeth." And for actresses in their 40s, she notes, "the opportunities are thinning out even more...
...hand, in halving a winter squash with mallet and cleaver--she made food preparation appealing, and even enticing. In her book The Way to Cook she introduces "A Fast Saute of Beef for Two" as "something to keep in mind for a rather important and intimate occasion....[W]hen you are an informal twosome, why not prepare the whole meal while having meaningful conversations and aperitifs together in the kitchen...
...sometimes frighteningly, detailed. Both parents had all their teeth out before leaving for Africa. It was considered a sort of prophylactic, but one that subjected them to a lifetime of discomfort. Tigger sewed, cooked, tended to animals routinely: there is a wonderfully precise description of how to sit a hen and how to candle an egg. The remnant of civilized life that every woman sought was a bolt of Liberty fabric. Lessing apparently has a formidable sense of smell. Before easy dry cleaning, everybody's clothes smelled bad. Nuns -- she attended a convent school for a while -- smelled even worse...
...effort was good, but...you can't play a game shorthanded and expect to win." captain Hen Coughlin said "If we can use these early games to learn about what we need to do better later on, we'll take these as a positive. I think they will be important down the stretch...
Holding everything together is Belinda, played by Francesca Delbanco, the mother hen and company gossip. Delbanco's exaggerated facial expression seem slightly overdone it the first act, but serve her well in the second as the action moves to pantomime. Her clever miming allowed the audience to catch every word--and say it aloud for her. By the third act, Belinda is trying to lead the company out of the woods, improvising for the mentally and verbally challenged. Delbanco's gives a perfectly outrageous delivery of Belinda's efforts, summing up an entire scene by announcing loudly to the audience...