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...foot Browning has fit in with the team well, earning the nickname "Sweet Pea" for her soft-spoken and considerate manner despite her aggressive, vocal soccer persona on the field...
...what makes The First Wives Club so uplifting. "They did something constructive with the money [by setting up a crisis center] and left you feeling that they were not bitter, bitchy women," says Beverly Hills therapist Carole West. Sugar Rautbord, a divorced Chicago socialite and author of the novel Sweet Revenge, agrees. "It's not about going off a cliff like Thelma and Louise did," she explains. "It's get down to earth, raise your children, get a bank account, buy your own boat, put yourself in a position to get even if you want...
Judy Collins the field hockey player--not to be confused with the folk singer--has already made sweet music for Harvard this year...
...like Lindsay Duncan in Grown-Ups, as if rehearsing to put her unloving husband's eyes out. Or they throw insults like darts. "Drop dead!" shouts the pretentious Beverly (Steadman) at her husband in Abigail's Party (1977); two minutes later, he does. The hate-filled wife in Home Sweet Home is an adulterer, but infidelity with her husband's best friend gives the woman no more pleasure than anything else in her sorry life. There is a majestic contempt on display here--loathing raised to an art form...
...July (1985), the tone mellowed; Leigh was kind to both the Catholics and the Protestants of Belfast--though the Republicans had the funnier lines. High Hopes saves its venom for the hilariously rendered posh types and poseurs; toward its central couple of fuzzy Marxists, the film dares to be sweetly sentimental. In Life Is Sweet and especially Secrets & Lies, the working-class families are observed, warts and all, with an insider's love and forgiveness. "One way or another, all my films are about roots and families," says Leigh. "One of my cousins saw Secrets & Lies and said, 'Oh, there...