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Hollywood, after all, is a town where gay men run major production companies, direct big-budget movies and star in burly action adventures. Yet only a few studio pictures have depicted even subsidiary homosexual characters. Among the recent ones: the lesbian cop in Internal Affairs; Michelle Pfeiffer's gay neighbor in Frankie and Johnnie; the young black in Six Degrees of Separation; Harvey Fierstein as Robin Williams' brother in Mrs. Doubtfire...
...Museum was closed for five years during World War II when occupied by the Armed Services. But when I arrived at Harvard in 1957, the Museum had been open for more than a decade, its public exhibits intact. The truth was more dreadful. Between the death of Robert Pfeiffer, the Museum's long-time curator, in the early spring of 1958, and my appointment as curator in July, 1958, the public exhibits of the museum were dismantled to make room for the Center for International Affairs. Plans had been formally discussed before Pfeiffer's death of splitting the collections...
World Language and Cultural Studies Center, Pfeiffer College, Misenheimer...
...late-19th century New York, "The Age of Innocence" tells the tale of the reintroduction of the Countess Olenska (played by Michelle Pfeiffer, with a shocking perm) to New York high society, after a decades-long sojourn in Europe with her husband. The Countess has made a bad marriage and is now returned to the bosoms of her former associates sans Count and hoping to divorce, which casts her as a fallen woman in the eyes of this morally puritanical--though decadent--crowd. Newland Archer (played by a stalwart yet at times wistful Daniel Day-Lewis), the intellectually curious scion...
...three stars (Day-Lewis superbly stooped by rectitude, Pfeiffer so elegant and bruised, Ryder a young Audrey Hepburn in all her wide-eyed guile) are swathed in glamorous costumes and period decor. The congestion of old masters on a matron's wall suggests the confined space in which the story unfolds and the straitened notions to which Newland and Ellen must pay homage. The handsomely fussy design is meant to dazzle and deaden the viewer's senses -- as Newland is seduced by Ellen and suffocated...