Word: parkers
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...should know -- actually, for complete, suspenseful enjoyment of the film, you very much should not know, but the word is out, so we're obliged to tell you -- that Heavenly Creatures is based on a notorious murder case. In 1954 in Christchurch, New Zealand, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme were convicted of bludgeoning Pauline's mother Honora to death. The girls were "detained at Her Majesty's pleasure" until 1959, when Juliet left New Zealand and Pauline went into hiding. It was recently revealed that Juliet became a best-selling mystery novelist who lives in Scotland and writes under...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, Michael Dohne, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Paul White...
IMAGING: Mark Stelzner (Manager); Gerard Abrahamsen, Raphael Joa, Lois Rubenstein (Supervisors); Steven Cadicamo, Charlotte Coco, Michael Dohne, John Dragonetti, Paul Gettinger, Carl Leidig, Linda Parker, Mark P. Polomski, Richard Shaffer, David Spatz, Lorri Stenton, Paul White...
This is a perverse linkage of the value of an institution and its temporary usage. Certainly, it is unfortunate when the heir to the throne has aspirations of being reincarnated as a feminine hygiene product (His Royal Highness was recorded in a conversation with Camilla Parker-Bowles expressing fear that he would be "chucked down the lavatory and go on forever, swirling round the top, never going down."). But since so many Britons support the idea of a monarchy--75 percent in a recent survey--why let two people destroy...
...overacts so gorgeously that when she apostrophizes Shayne ("O pungent, seething artist!") the ludicrousness of the line is not too much for her to carry off. Even Rob Reiner (as the crusty, unsuccessful playwright Sheldon Flender) manages to tell Shayne, who is cheating on his wife (Mary-Louise Parker), that the artist "creates his own moral universe" with a straight face...