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...been closed down and three operators have been sent to jail. Last week John Blazer pleaded guilty to mail fraud for sending out degrees from his bogus universities of East Georgia and the Bahama Islands; he received a two-year prison term. And in Arkansas last year, George C. Lyon, 79, was given a year in prison and fined $2,000 after selling FBI Agent Allen Ezell five phony degrees. Says Ezell: "I complained to him because a diploma I'd gotten in the mail was damaged. He sat there and forged another one for me right...
Entre Nous, the official French entry for the Academy Awards, is a film that examines the close relationship of two women who meet at their children's elementary school play in Lyon in 1952. Unlike Personal Best, where the relationship between the two women is distinctly physical and the film The Turning Point, where the women share a strictly platonic relationship. Kury does not explicate the nature of the protagonists' relationship, but rather leaves Madeline and Lena's friendship ambiguous...
When we meet the two women 10 years later in Lyon, Madeline has remarried--this time to an unsuccessful actor and equally unsuccessful seller of dubious goods--Costa (Jean Pierre Bacri). In contrast to Madeline who has maintained her own artistic sphere, Lena has managed to turn her hurried marriage into a comfortable middle-class world of childcare with her husband Michel, a now-successful garage owner...
Kury's characters become the central focus of the film, while the background tends to reflect the mood or mindset of the principles. When Lena and Madeline spend a day exploring Lyon for a site to start their dress shop, Lyon looks like a muted painting with pastel buildings and pale skies, invoking the almost dreamlike quality of the day. When Lena's child gets left behind during the excursion, the audience is thrust back into the really of material responsibility as Lena and Madeline pace around the seemingly stark interior of Lena's home. Kury never diverts the audience...
Body Builder Lisa Lyon, 30, is too busy these days to pump much iron. The U.C.L.A. anthropology graduate, who can dead-lift 225 lbs., has written and appeared in two pictorial bestsellers (Lady; Lisa Lyon's Body Magic) that feature muscle-bulging poses she calls "body sculpture." Now she has left her duties as hostess of a Playboy Network talk show to develop a fashion-modeling career. The 5-ft. 3½-in., 105-lb. unscrawny mannequin currently appears on six pages of the German edition of Vogue; her physique may soon grace rag-trade magazines in Italy...