Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Mystic Lake was the site of the 15th Hood Trophy regatta-a two-day, 20-team event that drew skippers from as far away as Cambridge... England (they came in 18th...
Forget the dictates of retrochic: the typical '70s family was not the Brady Bunch. It might have been closer to the Hoods and the Carvers, neighboring clans in New Canaan, Conn., who make up one big unhappy family in The Ice Storm. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is having a fruitless tryst with Janey Carver (Sigourney Weaver), while Ben's wife Elena (Joan Allen) screams silently, so as not to wake the kids, and Janey's husband Jim (Jamey Sheridan) has so little impact on his brood that when he calls out a cheery, "I'm back," his son Mikey (Elijah...
Playtime for the kids, on this Thanksgiving weekend of 1973, means sexual one-upmanship. Precocious Wendy Hood (Christina Ricci) insists on wearing a Nixon mask during foreplay with Mikey Carver and goads his shy younger brother Sandy (Adam Hann-Byrd) into a game of mutual exhibitionism. Wendy's brother Paul (Tobey Maguire) goes to a Manhattan party where, once again, a pretty girl treats him as just a friend. For the adults the big social event is a Key Party. The men drop their car keys into a bowl, the women blindly pick them out, and new sexual partnerships...
Sailing at Hood Trophy...
...speech at the Oscars--Kline brings his Shakespearean inner torment to a comic apex. "I always assumed he'd always known he was gay since adolescence," Kline says of the character. "But like most of us, he has found a way to accommodate that denial." His portrayal of Ben Hood, a father torn between responsibility and lust in The Ice Storm, a 1970s period drama set in suburban Connecticut, also shows a debt to the Bard in its exploration of adultery and family upheaval...