Word: robertses
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Americans, especially women, have become captives of this damaging aesthetic standard. Just consider Julia Roberts. In an earlier era she would have been considered a victim of starvation. "More than 70% of women say they feel fat, but only 23% are truly overweight," says Dr. Arnold Andersen, a psychiatrist at...
PHOTOGRAPHY: Richard L. Boeth, MaryAnne Golon, Rose Keyser (Associate Editors); Kevin J. McVea (Traffic); Renee Mancini (Syndication); Arnold H. Drapkin (Consulting Picture Editor); Dorothy Affa Ames, Sarah Buffum, Paula Hornak Kellner, Gary Roberts, Nancy Smith-Alam, Robert B. Stevens (Assistant Editors) Bureaus: Martha Bardach, Sahm Doherty, Leny Heinen, Stanley Kayne...
Hilary O'Neil (Julia Roberts) is poor but healthy, uneducated but full of spunky common sense. Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott) is rich but mortally ill, overeducated and understandably fearful and withdrawn. In other words, they are made for each other.
If close to a century of movie history has not taught us that, then the past year of Roberts' professional history certainly has. For she has become the designated heroine of our redemptive fairy tales. Having taught a workaholic conglomerateur how to love in Pretty Woman and herself how to...
Within the confines of its conventions, the film handles its material fairly honorably. It does not prettify the rigors of cancer treatment, and it does not pump out a cloud of cheap sentiment when things start to go bad for the patient. But if anything redeems Dying Young, it is...