Word: uptightness
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Housewives' suburban hotties, like Sex and the City's urban ones, are unabashed straight stereotypes: the frazzled mom, the girl next door, the spicy Latina, the uptight homemaker. But, notes Paul Colichman, co-founder and CEO of Here! TV, a gay and lesbian premium channel, "Gay men have always loved sexy, ultrafeminine, exaggerated women like Marilyn Monroe. The women in Desperate Housewives are caricatures and larger than life. That's why it works...
...thanks, in part, to De France's performance. It earned her a César (France's Academy Award) as best new actress. In the same year, she also showed she had a deft comic touch in the French romcoms Irène, the story of a lonely, uptight woman's search for love, and A + Pollux, as the elusive love interest of a man determined to find and claim her for good. "It wasn't planned that way, but being in three films in a single year produced maximum exposure," De France recalls. That interest hasn't waned since...
...Bridget describes Darcy’s alma mater, Eton, as “one of those fascist institutions where they stick a poker up your arse which you’re not allowed to take out for the rest of your life.” She takes on the uptight lawyers at one of Darcy’s work functions, railing against their tiresome Tory belief systems but oblivious to their increasingly shocked facial expressions...
Payne, though, insists that his films are about more than just uptight men and their various hurts. They’re characterized by one thing above all: humanity...
...reasons we can play so well as a team is that we get along so well,” Maasdorp said. “You play best when you just relax and stop being uptight...