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...film re-creates not only the bizarre case (already the subject for one TV movie this season) but also the media frenzy that surrounded it. TV reporters try to sweet-talk their way into the principals' homes. Friends and relatives battle over selling their stories to Hollywood. "Mom, when they make the movie, can I play myself?" asks Wanda's daughter as if she were seeking a lift to the mall. Layers pile on layers: we watch as Wanda watches herself on Donahue and A Current Affair; the film's producer and writer appear as themselves; and the entire story...
Last year, the Harvard women's tennis team lost to Pennsylvania for the first time in 12 years. While revenge can be sweet, the Crimson felt bitter. Very bitter. It wasn't going to happen again...
...That Oscar theme is a joke," says film critic Molly Haskell, "because men are now playing all the roles. They get the macho roles and the sweet- sensitive roles, and they play the sexual pinups too. The best woman's role of 1992 was in The Crying Game, and that was played...
There is a plethora of primal romance in Like Water for Chocolate, set mostly in Mexico's turbulent 1910s. While the eldest sister (mesmerized, of course, by Tita's food) runs off naked to join Zapata's forces of independence, Tita stays at home to mix her own sweet subversion into her food. As the movie proves, the most profound revolutions are the oldest -- the ones women have been cooking up since the cave days...
Mostly love -- or lust, since Leo is 12 and increasingly preoccupied with "the tail that swelled between my legs." The two scents, sweet and acrid, mingle whenever he sees his dream girl, Bianca (Giuditta Del Vecchio), a dark- haired waif who lives nearby. He has visions of Bianca standing in a Sicilian glade, singing Italian love songs in her thin, pure voice. Through the bathroom keyhole he has other views of Bianca. He watches her adjust her underclothes, then sees she is not alone. Grandfather is in the tub, naked, handing her money. "Sex," Leo writes, "I discovered between ignorance...