Word: macho
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...That Oscar theme is a joke," says film critic Molly Haskell, "because men are now playing all the roles. They get the macho roles and the sweet- sensitive roles, and they play the sexual pinups too. The best woman's role of 1992 was in The Crying Game, and that was played...
...audiences, male and female, who want in their movie diet something tastier and more varied than the raw meat of macho adventures and comedies. Filmmakers are kissing off half their audience on the assumption that men go out to the movies while women stay home and watch TV -- where women's and family issues tend to rule the sitcoms and movies of the week, and where aging screen queens (Lucille Ball, Doris Day, Candice Bergen and now Faye Dunaway) find a congenial home...
BOOKS Is Oscar Hijuelos too macho to tell a female story...
...vibrant snapshots from the lives of different members of the Montez O'Brien clan, all rendered in the writer's exquisitely sensuous prose. The sisters are the title characters of the book, and there is much female activity, including cooking, childbearing and lovemaking, but Hijuelos is much too macho a writer to surrender himself entirely to a feminine -- don't even think about feminist -- world. Thus a big chunk of the book focuses on brother Emilio's exploits as he fights in Italy during World War II, beds his way through postwar Greenwich Village, beats the odds in Hollywood, where...
Sanchez, who focuses his writings largely on Puerto Rican culture and cultural history, is best known for his 1976 novel La Gauaracha de Macho Camacho (Macho Camacho's Beat). He teaches one semester at the University of Puerto Rico at Rio Piedras and one semester at CUNY each year