Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...innocent who marries a millionaire only to have everyone compare her damningly with his first, drowned wife, could have turned cruel and vindictive. But Hitchcock works out of a bottomless pit of sinister imagination, and instead of making us feel sorry for the poor put-upon Joan Fontaine, he has us half-believing that she might have this coming to her. Only Hitchcock can make you want to rescue a protagonist and stab her at the same time, and the ambivalence chills. A neat double suspence turn-around caps off the film; all our sympathies change, and we start rooting...
...decidedly mixed blessing. Most prominently, the program offers two splendid performances. In Bernice Bobs Her Hair, Shelley Duvall brings a graceful vulnerability and unguarded beauty to the role of an ugly-duckling adolescent who is first encouraged in social flirtations, then undone by an attractive, more popular cousin. Director Joan Micklin Silver (Hester Street) misses the stronger undercurrents of F. Scott Fitzgerald's original story, just as Novice Director Peter Werner is defeated by the portentous gothic glooms of the Joyce Carol Gates story he adapted, In the Region of Ice. Actress Fionnuala Flanagan, though, finds just the right...
...Joan Smith Cole Monroe, Conn...
...Yorkers who had seen in past months other classical music stars like Joan Sutherland, Beverly Sills and Leonard Bernstein pass through the aisles of the Korvette's record department, Horowitz's appearance might not have come as a surprise. But for anyone familiar with the recluse's habits and lifestyle, Horowitz's show was to be as remote a possibility as an acceptance from Greta Garbo to appear on the Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show...
Despite her oddities, Joan Foster becomes a character who genuinely engages the reader's sympathy and suggests that within every classically shaped woman there may be a ballooning romantic waiting to get out. She is also a useful vehicle for a meditation on the possibilities of modern fiction. In unobtrusive layers of allusion, Atwood pays homage to earlier forms of the novel - the picaresque, the gothic romance, the Bildungsroman and Victorian saga. She tries to shoehorn her heroine's life into the coherent contours of those forms, but Joan Foster won't sit still for the fitting...