Word: khouri
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Marasco's research team--which includes postdoctoral fellows Si-Yi Chen and Yousef Khouri and Graduate student Jessamyn Bagley--announced its finding in the June 21 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
...movie industry's feminists might feel uneasy too. They look at the movie landscape and see a wasteland, where the meaty roles women get tend to be predators or sex kittens. "Hollywood is trying to resexualize its women back into submission," says Callie Khouri, screenwriter of the feminist buddy movie Thelma & Louise. "This whole idea that women are powerful because they're sexy is a crock. Sex isn't power. Money is power. But the women who do best in this society are the ones who are the most complacent in the role of women as sexual commodity...
...Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas, Mad Dog and Glory and the forthcoming Indecent Proposal, starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore, a young woman is the gift one man offers another. "You couldn't get away with this retro idea with any other kind of person," fumes Khouri. "Would Eddie Murphy star in a movie where he was a gift to a white person...
...Khouri, it's work -- and actresses aren't getting much of that, in good roles or bad. Writers and directors will still make room for women's roles if they fit the new conventions of "nurturer or shrew," as comedian % Ann Magnuson defines them in her new one-woman show. "Basically, I vacillate between those two roles," she says. "The dialogue boils down to either 'Fme' or 'Fyou...
Some of that frustration helped fuel Thelma & Louise. "I wanted to have it so that when you left the theater, you respected the characters," says Khouri. She is annoyed by critics who charge that her film provides poor role models for women. "They don't really want to see women operating outside the boundaries that are prescribed for them, misbehaving and enjoying themselves," she says. Nor does she take kindly to the criticism that the movie bashes men. "I certainly don't hate men," says Khouri, who celebrates her first year of marriage to writer and producer David Warfield this...