Word: thelma
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...characters played by Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton and Bette Midler are like the Furies crossed with the Three Stooges--college friends spurned by their husbands in middle age who plan a madcap payback. But for all the one-liners and pratfalls, the movie is more than satiric fluff. Like Thelma & Louise, which five years ago set audiences to cheering when Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon blasted a trucker's rig to smithereens--or last year's Waiting to Exhale, which had women yelling "Go, girl!" at the screen--The First Wives Club is dipping into a bottomless well of shared...
...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...
...soon to know whether the movie will have women talking to the screen, as Waiting to Exhale and Thelma & Louise did. But at the very least, it works as an antidote to the zeitgeist of the '80s, when middle-aged tycoons and their acolytes could suddenly drop an inconvenient first wife without social opprobrium. Time was, a price had to be paid for dumping wife No. 1 just as her usefulness was fading, the kids were leaving home, and she was learning what the sun can do to your face and gravity to your thighs. Then, if you decamped with...
...best editors--like Thelma Schoonmaker, Scorsese's longtime wizard with the shears--say they can save a bad film, "but no editor can ever make it great if the material is fatally flawed. You have to have the footage. And a bad editor can ruin a good film." That's something Schoonmaker would not be capable of. Her collaborations with Scorsese, including Raging Bull, GoodFellas and Casino, have pushed the editing craft into a postmodern, almost hallucinogenic art. They are what films...
...common conception of a women's studies class runs something like this: 20 or so men-hating women sitting around a table, complaining about oppression, and maybe watching the movie "Thelma and Louise...