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...Catherine Keener: Deflowered a 40-Year-Old Virgin, safeguarded The Interpreter, disrupted The Ballad of Jack and Rose and earned a nod for playing prim Harper Lee in Capote...
DIED. SHELLEY WINTERS, 85, zaftig, high-decibel star who played some of the movies' most famous victims; in Beverly Hills. Born Shirley Schrift, she had the attributes of a '50s Hollywood dish--latkes, perhaps--and could twist prim dialogue into raunch with her throaty laugh. But the shrillness in a Winters character gave men homicidal urges. She was strangled by Ronald Colman (A Double Life) and drowned by Montgomery Clift (A Place in the Sun). Robert Mitchum slit her throat (The Night of the Hunter); James Mason drove her to fatal madness (Lolita). She won two Oscars, for The Diary...
...feat, really, considering neither cars nor Coors were allowed on campus. After this clear pattern of suspect attachment followed by sudden abandonment, you’d think for sure I would wise up before college. Hard-working was the new black. It was so clearly the inside that counted. Prim boys were in. But there has remained something undeniably attractive about the wrong side of town, sleeping late on a Monday, and his puppy dog grin (the one other girls know nothing about). And at Harvard, the bad boys just stand out all the more. I wasn?...
...Girls series of books, dolls, and doll accessories, my mother informed me that I could pick one American Girl doll I wanted for Hanukah. Elated and overwhelmed, I ravaged through the catalogue without leaving a single page unturned. The problem was that while I wanted Samantha (because she was prim, proper, drank tea and ate crumpets, and was of course beautiful), I wanted all of the accessories of Molly (um, a wooden desk, a brown lunch bag with a sandwich and apple, and a few composition books and pencils). Already, my internal conflict was stirring within...
Frances Conroy as Dora, a prim and proper real-estate agent, and Jessica Lange as Carmen, an ambitious lawyer turned “animal communicator,” both play their roles intriguingly...