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...will check it out. In the days of the three-channel universe, TV professor Thompson could count on students' having seen the same set of familiar shows like Andy Griffith. Now, he says, "I find myself having to put episodes of That Girl on reserve at the library." Anna Karenina, meet Marlo Thomas...
...Meanwhile, on the newly liberated bookshelves in my current apartment, Betty Friedan mixes happily with Joe Klein, who abuts Rosamunde Pilcher. As for Bridget, she's ensconced safely next to the comforting bulk of Anna Karenina...
When Count Alexis Vronsky first sees Anna in Anna Karenina, she is scanning the crowd from the doorway of a train car. The first encounter between Antoine and Angele, the protagonists of Venus Beauty Institute, also occurs in a train station-a subway station in Paris. In the book, Anna Karenina's "shining gray eyes rested with friendly attention on Vronsky's face, as though she were recognizing him, and then promptly turned away to the passing crowd, as though seeking someone." In the movie, Angele runs after a train and screams at one of its passengers, "you dumped...
Like Anna Karenina, Angele has a suppressed nervous energy-"You're never at rest," Antoine tells her, (approximately) "that's what I like about you." It's more than just the jitters: she seems to sense some palpable, immediate danger, like hit men with flamethrowers. It's like you missed a scene that went "you have twenty minutes to get the money, Angele, or the Venus Beauty Institute will burn!" Her impatience becomes endearing when directed at her impossible customers, like Madame Buisse, who struts around Paris in nothing but a trenchcoat which she removes whenever possible. When a young...
Nevertheless, it's not as pensive as the typical Frenchy love movie. (By this I mean the only Frenchy love movie I've ever seen, about a woman who jumps into the river after going to buy yogurt.) Anna Karenina contains real observations about what people can do to one another. I don't think the same can be said for Venus Beauty. We never quite know why most of it's characters do things, but at least they aren't stereotypes, and at least they're enjoyable to watch...