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...HAVE those days when we wish we just hadn't gotten out of bed. Thanksgiving 1986, was one of those days for one Alexandra Sternburghen alias Viveca Von Loren (Jane Fonda), a down-and-out, little-to-be-thankful-for actress. Lolling around in the sheets of a stranger's bed, she rolls over to find that her lover of the previous eve has a large machete stuck in the middle of his chest. "If that's one of those trick knives, you can pull it out now." Its no trick. Its genuine ginsu...
...point here is not to try to second guess the director or screenwriter by guessing who set Viveca up. Lumet just wants you to sit back and absorb the atmosphere. Let the dirt of L.A. sink into your skin and relish the experience of seeing Jane Fonda look worse than you for once...
WOMEN WRITERS have certainly done well for themselves since the days of the 19th century novel. Jane Austen, George Eliot and the Bronte sisters worked their own powerful personalities into their fiction. But they struggled against a male-dominated society that saw writing as a recreation for women only if they were recognizable freaks like the Brontes, spinsters like Austen or "immoral" rebels like Eliot, who shocked London society by living with a man who was not her husband...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...Blake Hallanan, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Katherine Mihok, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Adrianne Jucius Navon, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Barry Rehfeld, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Sidney Urquhart, Jane Van Tassel, Elsie B. Washington, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...