Word: joans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Aisha Labi, and research by Joan Levinstein...
...Suspicion (1941). Cary Grant is the upper crust?s most eligible gold-digger ? and maybe a murderer to boot. The Hitchcock classic throws Joan Fontaine into Cary?s arms and watches the love turn to fear. If you don?t like the ending, blame the studios for being overly protective of Grant?s image...
...should say that no matter what kind of food carried the unusual ad, in no event am I the best audience for any promotion from ABC. I gave up on Good Morning America even before Joan and Charlie left, and now, well, suffice it to say I get out of the house a lot earlier than I used to. I can't say I really care for Dharma, and I don't know what Greg sees in her either. If it weren't for Monday Night Football, I'd be short one network altogether...
...second is the acting, the two standouts being Maguire, who gives a beautifully nuanced performance as the film's emotional center, and Joan Allen as his (Pleasantville) mother: independently and together, they account for nearly all of the movie's most poignant moments. The fact that Allen plays the same role she always does, i.e., the repressed wife/mother figure with a hidden reservior of intense feeling, would be more annoying if she didn't do it so superbly, exactly right. Next to her, William Macy is merely adequate, though often quite funny, as the impotent and increasingly bewildered father figure...
...With reporting by Laura Karmatz and Aisha Labi, and research by Joan Levinstein...