Word: jealous
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...while still in grammar school organized all the neighborhood kids' birthday parties. With her image and life so open, she has become ripe for parody and criticism. She is the subject of a recent scathing, unauthorized biography, Just Desserts. Stewart says she finds the criticism boring: "It's sexist, jealous and stupid, and it all comes from one little area--journalism." Ouch...
They're the folks next door. They argue over money, worry about their kids, get crazy jealous of their loved ones. They have just this one eccentricity: they don't mind making the most intimate act of their lives a spectator sport. They see no reason to explain this, and neither does this defiantly noncommittal film. At the start, for example, Eddie is already exhibiting himself for money. We don't learn why he and Amber and Rollergirl descended into the netherworld of sexual showmanship; they have dwelt in that Valley from the start...
Matthews is as hollow as his fiction. In fact, both he and Austin seem more like sounding boards than characters capable of making their own music. Not so 17-year-old Larry and his delightfully blowsy Aunt Doris in Jealous, a finely tuned 58-page tale that immediately reminds us that Ford is the gifted novelist who wrote The Sportswriter and Independence...
...Jealous is a coming-of-age story told by Larry, a Montana boy who leaves his father's house near the Teton River to live with his mother in Seattle. On the road with his flirty aunt in her pink Cadillac, Larry seems a bit like Huck Finn rafting to new adventures. But Doris is no runaway Jim. Free in body and spirit, she drinks while driving, talks to dangerous characters in strange bars and dispenses seasoned opinions that underscore the title of the book. On why Larry's mom and dad separated: "They know too much about each other...
Unlike Austin and Matthews, Larry brings a fresh and unambivalent eye to experience. Unlike the other two novellas in this collection, Jealous never bogs down in the bottomless gender swamp. In fact, the trip with Aunt Doris reads like a first stop in what could have been (or might become) a rousing American road novel...