Word: romanticized
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But there is a theme implicit in the Smith story that ought to be familiar to every woman with a functioning heart, and that theme is love. Not the good kind of love, obviously, the kind that results in homemade cookies and all-night vigils with feverish children, but the...
But Susan Smith was not programmed to be "good." Everything in her own sorry history taught her to put the pull of sexual, romantic love above the needs of little children. When she was six, her father killed himself in response to the heartbreak of divorce. Susan had been his...
So we have, in the Susan Smith case, the female dilemma at its starkest: Not the pallid "family-vs.-career" predicament, but a zero-sum choice between romantic love and mother love, with guaranteed misery no matter which you chose. Novels like Anna Karenina taught us the "bad" woman's...
GELL: I haven't yet had a chance to criticize the pseudo-romantic thing between Bennett and Dr. Alan Champion (Dennis Miller), a seldane-popping ("It's the antihistamine of champions," he remarks in one of the film's wittiest moments) psychiatrist who resembles the comedian Yakov Smirnoff, not the...
Also noteworthy is Rudd, who is so endearing as the nerdy but lovable Josh, that he helps transform Clueless from being just a silly no-brainer, to a teen romantic comedy that you won't be able to help falling in love with. Rudd has a recurring role on the...