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...great actresses who never won an Oscar, Barbara Stanwyck had an intelligence and fire that lasered through all her roles. She's best as a predator on the make but showed her range in this 1937 sudser about a back-street woman who embarrasses her daughter (Anne Shirley) as the girl rises in society.We won't describe the ending, except to say that if Stanwyck doesn't make you cry, we would be tempted to refund your money--to help pay for a heart transplant...
...would like to think that art is not gender specific. Women should be able to appreciate a testosterone-drenched Tarantino film, just as guys ought to feel O.K. sneaking a few tears at the latest Susan Sarandon sudser. But any man who braves the theater for a performance of The Vagina Monologues had better be prepared. Eve Ensler's play is a series of monologues based on interviews with real women on the subject of their most intimate body part. There are lists of answers to "empowering" questions ("If your vagina could talk, what would it say?") and harrowing first...
Tears streaming down cheeks or a grin from ear to ear equals good word of mouth. Last summer's surprise smash Ghost got 50 million moviegoers suitably weepy. So this summer's early line favored Dying Young, the Julia Roberts sudser about a former Candy Striper who falls in love with a failing patient. Hollywood had two nicknames for the film: Pretty Nurse and Can't Miss. But now second thoughts may be spoiling the party. 20th Century Fox has postponed the movie until late summer, and there's talk of changing both the downbeat ending and the title...
...main stem's economic and emotional health, there have been no successful romantic comedies in more than a year. It says something dour about Broadway, its playwrights and its audience that the last laugh-till-you-cry hit was Torch Song Trilogy, Harvey Fierstein's savvy sudser about a not-so-gay drag queen. You may begin to wonder if there are any heterosexuals out there who both feel deeply and write funny...
...Cold. Beleaguered Lever is doggedly fighting back with a new Cold Water All, a low sudser that works in cold water and is being pushed in a series of TV commercials stressing that women could go on washing even if the hot water were turned off in cities across the U.S. Lever claims that it saves the cost of heating 30 gallons of hot water for each machine load, is easier on delicate fabrics, and prevents shrinkage. But the job of propagandizing skeptical housewives into believing that cold water washes as well as hot will be long and costly...