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...heart, however, 'Something to Talk About isn't just a male-bashing movie which rants about the degradation of married women at the hands of their cheating husbands. On the contrary, its script, written by Callie Khouri (best known for authoring the script of "Thelma and Louise') is subtle, and very real...

Author: By Alison D. Overholt, | Title: Sedgwick, Not Roberts, Will Give Audiences 'Something to Talk About' | 8/8/1995 | See Source »

Well, yes, this is a comedy about adultery and its aftershocks. ButTIME's Richard Schickelsays it's much more than that. The funny, good-natured script, by Callie Khouri ("Thelma and Louise"), is another empowerment play, but deeper and more intricately subversive in its assault on American patriarchy. Director Lasse Hallstrom ("My Life as a Dog") is an unobtrusive craftsman who lets his actors breathe in an easy, unforced way. And Gena Rowlands is simply great in a scene where she breaks the silence of the years in a richly emotional encounter with her husband. "Her performance," says Shickel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MOVIES . . . SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT | 8/4/1995 | See Source »

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...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Researchers Halt HIV Republication | 7/15/1994 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good Women | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Few Good Women | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

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