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...case that brings Wyler into the series is, once again, a crime rooted salaciously in sex. Up for re-election, the Governor of California is murdered in bed with his mistress, and the suspect is a demure schoolteacher, Sharon Rooney (Missy Crider) who appears too Kate Moss-frail to have actually pulled any triggers. Frustrated when he's passed over for a promotion in the prosecutors' office, Wyler manages to grab the job of defending her. In turn, Hoffman's former associates recruit the young gun with the star-making case to head their firm while their old boss...
...changes to make the women less shrewish. "I stuck with that bone and didn't let it go," she says. Addams Family Values screenwriter Paul Rudnick polished the script. And Midler, demanding more comedy, improvised some of her sharpest lines, including her comment to her husband's lithe mistress: "My, my. The bulimia certainly has paid...
...with ideas and political passion. He took on the British justice system in Murmuring Judges, postwar disillusion in Plenty, the church in Racing Demon. Skylight is a more modest piece, essentially a two-character drama about a wealthy restaurateur who arrives at the bleak little flat of his former mistress and tries to rekindle their affair. First we learn, rather tediously, the background of their relationship: they met when she went to work at one of his restaurants; she left him three years ago; his wife has since died of cancer. Then, after some getting-reacquainted sex, the fissures reappear...
There is always the winking Old World idea that adultery is an essentially victimless indulgence. At Francois Mitterrand's graveside not long ago, the mistress mourned alongside the widow. Further, what was once considered the seed-scattering privileges of the seigneur may have yielded to the modern thought that reckless masculinity is characteristic of the risk-taking personality best suited to strong leadership...
Hagedorn tells the story of the Riveras, a Filipino family that moves to the United States in 1970. While the father of the clan, Francisco, stays behind in the Philippines with his mistress, the mother, Milagros (a "volatile" woman given to pricey shopping sprees after fights with her husband), travels to America with her emotionally troubled son Voltaire (who has a penchant for bringing home strangers ranging from "a man with a rat's face" to "a burned-out ballerina") and her troublemaking daughter Rocky...