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Last June, former President Derek C. Bok was ready to leave Harvard for the sprawling, hilly campus of Stanford University to relax near his good pal, Donald Kennedy '52, otherwise known as that school's president...
...They also refuse to lay out the meanings of their films or make any large moral claims for them. They say the Barton Fink script arose in part out of a writing block of their own, in part out of a desire to write a good role for their pal Turturro, in part because, in Ethan's words, "we started thinking about a big empty hotel." As he says of these various elements, "Who knows quite how they go together or what precipitates what?" To say more than that, adds Joel, "is just not appealing...
...incidental. Jean Harlow made censors' hair curl because she disdained foundation garments, but she exuded most of her sexuality between the ears. In Red-Headed Woman she cooed and screwed her way to the top, and got away with it. In Red Dust she was Clark Gable's lover, pal and lover again, taking it all in her sashaying stride. These movies were made in 1932, yet they are more mature than many current films -- more aware of love's compromises and lust's attractions...
...ingratiating gear. It looks like a "buddy romp," as Geena Davis, who plays Thelma, puts it. Thelma is married to a carpet salesman named Darryl, who represents everything stupid and stupefying about traditional masculinity, keeping Thelma in a state of near childish dependency. Her best pal, Louise (Susan Sarandon), lives with an oft traveling musician named Jimmy, who is nice enough but suffers from the other great modern male defect -- a maddening inability to make permanent commitments. Both women feel more than entitled to shed their mates for a long weekend at a friend's vacation retreat...
...created the market for black-movie rage: Spike Lee. This acerbic auteur is probably best known as Michael Jordan's best pal Mars Blackmon, the hyperverbalizing Nike footwear flack on TV. But with scathing screeds like Do the Right Thing (1989) and the current Jungle Fever, Lee, 34, has carved a niche for fierce minority movies -- a niche that can be enlarged by other directors who are even younger, more choleric, closer to the action if not to the edge. Call them the Spikettes...