Word: ridings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long after he selected her as assistant editor for "Silence of the Lambs." Her experience impressed enough people at PBS to make her one of the 12 people out of 3,000 to be awarded a substantial grant to fund her first feature-length documentary film. "She Lives To Ride" (see review) opened one week ago at the Coolidge Corner theater. Stone half-seriously calls the PBS grant "one-stop shopping"--it provided her enough money, up-front, to make her first major film...
Stone and her husband Gary Stoloff (he runs a tight burrito business in the Garage) are both enthusiastic about the success of She Lives to Ride. The film has been picked up for national distribution, and Stone already has plans for two more documentaries, whose subjects she is not yet ready to discuss. Stone does not think her past has dictated her future: she says she had a positive experience at Harvard but admits that "I almost lost a job because I had Harvard on my resume." Refreshing simplicity and feminism with a brain: that is what we can expect...
Alice Stone's first feature-length documentary "She Lives to Ride" is a compendium of portraits of women who ride motorcycles, interspersed with archival footage of women who rode hot wheels in America's past. Stone reiterates in interviews that her main goal for this film was to show images of empowered women. She is entirely successful, and in addition she manages to take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women...
...most memorable profiles are those of Dot Robinson, an 82-year-old who refuses to ride anything but a girlie-pink Harley, and of Jaqui Sturgess, a Madison Avenue lesbian who rides not only to live but also in order to challenge societal constructs of femininity. The great thing about Dot (besides the lipstick holder attached to her bike's rearview mirror) is that she is completely unaware of her own place in the annals of feminist history, even though she rode a bike long before our mamas were born. "I was a woman in a man's world...
...past dozen years, and that has lowered costs and raised productivity: from sales of $886,000 per employee to $2.3 million. Losses have turned to profits, and more than half its nearly $12 billion annual sales are made to overseas customers. The company has had to ride out a strike by about 28% of its employees that is now in its 16th week. It has kept production up partly by making supervisors work at line jobs, partly by luring some United Auto Workers members into crossing the picket lines, partly by turning out more machinery in overseas plants...