Word: prude
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...confession. Women can be Janet Reno or Monica Lewinsky (for argument s sake, we ll say she s pretty). Everyone understands the concept of not pretty equals intelligent equals better than men, while pretty equals dumb equals slave to men. We categorize women into butch or airhead, prude or slut, dim-wit or smartadivisions with little gradation in between. Men, on the other hand, have the liberty of wearing pretty much anything and still having their intelligence and ability determined byasurprise!atheir intelligence and ability. The unfair smart-or-dumb distinction for women looks like it ll stick around...
...sensitive area finds the soft, expressive "Aloutte & Me." A change in vantage point at the love lost and found ("why did you go ruin every thing...it's the strangest thing/it doesn't hurt but I won't forget the sting") sets a sorrowful tone to Hanley's emotional prude. Add a little more edge to the vocals, guitar and drums to "Alouette & Me" and "Because Of You" pops rights out. Hanley wants to let go but can't bear to detach: "I've a dark and snowy remembrance of this/but remind me again of what I'm going...
This review is not the cry of a prude. Frankly, we don't care if a joke's funny as long as it's dirty. But in switching writer-directors, from the first film's Tom Shadyac to Steve Oedekerk, Carrey lost a clever farceur and got what Ace would call a la-hoo-za-her (loser). The star plays more than ever to himself; the cast stands around starched and embarrassed, like white-tie judges at a wet-T shirt contest. Wearying, stupefying, dumber than dumb, When Nature Calls would be a career ender for Carrey--except that...
Pfeiffer, most recently seen in "Wolf" withJack Nicholson and "The Age of Innocence" withDaniel Day-Lewis, is well-known for a variety ofsultry movie roles. Her performances as a loungesinger in "The Fabulous Baker Boys," Catwoman in"Batman," and a fallen prude in "DangerousLiaisons" have long eclipsed her early work inmovies such as the musical "Grease...
Then we have Atsuko Yamamoto (Joan Cheng), a snobbish prude who stubbornly clutches to her Japanese roots and refuses to acknowledge that her Japanese-American husband has completely forgotten his cultural heritage. Cheng fleshes out the part to perfection. She is delightfully funny when she plays out the bitchy side of Atsuko...