Word: moss
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Despite the variety of topics, the familiar bond among all of these theses is the personal interests that they explore. Says thesis adviser Rob Moss, "The beauty of this [assignment] is that the students can pursue what they want to. They are absolutely free from commercial worries...
...Moss says that it is not only entirely incidental that all VES theses happen to be documentaries this year (with Weintrob's dubious exception), but that it is also fortunate for the department. "We try to teach them to do this form and we are glad when they choose this. Most of the students who pursue the film track didn't come here wanting to make documentaries. They chose it because of what they saw in the movie theaters...
Dottie earns a name for herself on stage, attracting the notice of a hip Manhattan agent, Claudia Curtis, played by Carrie Fisher. Claudia is more than just any agent as she works for Arnold Moss (Dan Aykroyd), the agent of all the big name comedians in town. In a hilarious scene, Claudia and Moss watch Dottie on stage, and Moss is so mesmerized by her antics that he eats his paper napkin...
Even a visit to their mother in Las Vegas cannot stem the girls' growing resentment and pain at their mother's absence. To add to the turmoil, Erica and Opal discover their mother's burgeoning relationship with "the Moss," the term they use to derisively refer to their mother's agent...
Carrie Fisher superbly plays the role of the sophisticated and jaded Claudia. But even though Dottie tells the audience the two women have become fast friends, the movie offers no reason for such an affinity. Even Dottie's relationship with Arnold Moss comes out of nowhere and seems more like a thinly disguised device on the part of the scriptwriter to reveal the daughters' growing disapproval of their mother's new life...