Word: slattern
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...Christians in film but in this case seems absent; the Saunders are mostly just humorless and unfriendly. The anti-adult attitude extends, ultimately, to every grownup in the film. Jean Smart is a good comic actress, but what can you do when you're written as a one-dimensional slattern, held in contempt by your hipster child? Even the best of the grownups, the friendly hippie-dippie neighbor (Fred Willard) is something of a grotesque. This isn't so much youth in revolt as youth in disdain, which seems ironic, given how much Nick and Sheeni long to have access...
Julia Roberts, what has she got? A nice face, modest acting ability, an imposing resume and plenty of media coverage. But, mostly, she's got big hits. In the popular Steel Magnolias she parlayed a deathbed scene into an Oscar nomination. She was the Cinderella slattern in Pretty Woman, a worldwide smash that has earned more than $400 million. Even the brain-dead drama Flatliners, in which she had an unrewarding role, grossed $60 million Stateside -- a testament to her drawing power...
...chance to show his evolution. As Bloody Five, Tim Manna struts and bellows, though in his efforts to growl, his lines occasionally garble. Marty Shofner, Richard Bertelson, and Steve Craddock make a good Three Stooges team, and their casual violence fits their uniforms. By avoiding Widow Begbick's slattern stereotype, Claudia Carter does Brecht's characterization one better. Parkman Howe, as a monk cum con artist, skitters away with his part of the show. He turns that original missing private into a God then, with religio-carnival patter, fobs him off on the masses. One wishes Brecht had written...
Accessibility is the essence of her appeal. The usual Dyan Cannon role is that of the good-hearted slattern, the readily available Miss-or Mrs. -next door. In Doctors' Wives, she was a bored spouse on the prowl for fresh medical talent; in The Love Machine, the nympho consort of the head of a giant TV network; in The Anderson Tapes, a high-class prostitute. Now Otto Preminger's Such Good Friends (TIME, Jan. 10) has her bedding down with her dying husband's best friends-how else is a girl going to cope with the discovery...
...last night's masked horrors looked and behaved like a bunch of kids out for trick-and-treat. Patricia Smith's slattern recalled a hoarse and unhappy spinster. And like the other actors, Bacchus (Michael Cline) relied on pronouncing lines in a pseudo-theatrical voice...