Word: thelma
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...spent his first day dusting the books in the office library, then bungled his first case, losing all his client's money in a real estate deal. But he persevered, began joining various clubs, making speeches. He even joined a local theater group, where he met a schoolteacher named Thelma ("Pat") Ryan...
...that Lisa's poetry is inspired by Allen Ginsberg's and that the prison number (24601) worn variously by Marge, Principal Skinner and Sideshow Bob is Jean Valjean's in Les Miserables. It also helps if you know old movies. Simpsons plots have plundered King Kong, Citizen Kane, Thelma & Louise, Cape Fear and the entire Hitchcock oeuvre. "If you steal from a black-and-white film," Brooks told the writers, "it's an hommage...
...acting also rings true. Michael Madsen, with those dreamboat blue eyes and that Elvis-like carraige that we fell in love with in "Thelma and Louise," drives us crazy as the homicidally insane Mr. Blonde...
That is not to say that the female experience is the same for everyone. Toni Morrison speaks with one voice; "The Piano," "Thelma and Louise" and Roseanne Arnold with yet others. Whatever the medium, whether comedy or drama, this female voice expresses a sense that females occupy a separate place in society, one which provides them with a unique perspective, one which affects their reactions to the roles they are assigned...
...case "Thelma and Louise" wasn't enough to do it, this movie will once again question how anyone can proclaim Julia Roberts the actress of her generation with Geena Davis for transcendent beauty in this movie, the intangible radiance that distinguishes "stars" from run-of-the mill actresses...