Word: main
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main point of the trip is to train, but we have time to enjoy the warm weather," Ciollo said...
...that's all the good there is to say about the movie, if one discounts the scene where Martha sits weeping on the kitchen floor looking, as a friend comments, "Like somebody stole her food." The novelty of having a movie whose main characters are women is marred, because the plot is channeled through some late-Bond era fantasy of a planet full of women who all want to serve and protect their men. Schaech's non-essential role in the movie is not a triumph for women everywhere--it's more of a slap in the face. Can women...
Epps added that events where alcohol is served are not nearly as much of a problems as events where alcohol consumption is the main focus, citing certain athletic initiations a specific examples...
...shooting of the last scene took place in late January, just after Monica Lewinsky had become a household name. The film's main ad line ("What went down on the way to the top") now had a Letterman leer, and the central mystery (Can Stanton cover up an affair with a young woman?) seemed less like satire than prophecy. But, of course, the timing was just a fluke of the Zeitgeist. As Maura Tierney says, "The reality is something very serious, and the movie is something we made in Hollywood, based on a book that came out more than...
Sixteen years later, the rule still held. In The Best Man, a 1964 adaptation of Gore Vidal's play, Henry Fonda is the thoughtful but philandering candidate whose main rival is the unscrupulous Cliff Robertson. At the party convention, Robertson digs up some dirt on Fonda and uses it. Fonda gets some on Robertson but doesn't use it, proving he's the best man, even if not the best husband, but ending his chance at the nomination. He manages to thwart Robertson by other means. With both flawed men out of the running, the Oval Office remains...