Word: hepburn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps to compensate for the movie's so-what story, Stone has also tried to fashion a Hepburn-Tracy relationship for his hero and heroine. Bisset is cast as the world's greatest (and probably thinnest) pastry chef, while Segal plays her ex-husband, a fast-food maven whose philan dering broke up the marriage. It is not the actors' fault that they walk through the film with plastic smiles: the characters' debates over the merits of haute cui sine and Big Macs are as predictable as their final reconciliation. Besides, it strains credibility that this...
...backdrop is Wales, with wild flowers in brilliant bloom. And in the foreground is another vision of natural beauty: Katharine Hepburn. If she looks a bit like some high-spirited English school mistress, that's because she is. On location for a television remake of Broadway's 1940 success, The Corn Is Green, Hepburn is cast as the indefatigable Miss Moffat, a sturdy spinster who moves to a Welsh mining town and opens a school. The man in the director's chair is close friend George Cukor, 79, the grand old master who guided Hepburn through nine...
...unappealing characteristics of the women in these movies tend to make one lose faith in what we all hoped the women's movement would eventually bring about. These women are not heroines of the Lauren Bacall, Katherine Hepburn caliber. Rather, they are weak and confused. There is little doubt that Fonda is going to go back to her husband, Bruce Dern, once he pulls himself together and stops reliving his Vietnam days, pulling out bayonets in the living room and threatening to kill everyone. Yes, her little affair with Voigt, the radical Vietnam paraplegic, was a mind-opening and beautiful...
...come back on, feeling depressed and ashamed. You long for Laren Bacall's cool, (oh, so cool) figure, lighting a cigarette for Bogart under the bar with one swish movement, finally winning his affection in To Have and Have Not through pure, unadulterated strength (remember that word?). Or Katherine Hepburn in Adam's Rib carrying out a masterful delivery on the plight of abused wives to a jury which her defendant, against Spencer Tracy's efforts to convict her for shooting her husband...
Adam's Rib and Woman of the Year-Of all the Tracy-Hepburn films, these two are probably the best. What is there to say about the greatest couple ever to hit the silver screen? If you haven't seen it, go, although if you wait long enough you'll see them on the Late Show one night. Hepburn as a career woman and Tracy as her jealous, decidedly unliberated husband are not to be missed...