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...with the rapturous Mo Ghile Mear--Our Hero, a tribute to Bonnie Prince Charlie that makes the listener shiver, and sing along, with its manly melancholy. For three other star studs, Moloney provided tales of faithless women: the dirty dancer in Jones' giddily melodramatic version of Tennessee Waltz, the vixen who leads a beau to murder in Knopfler's The Lily of the West, the adulteress refusing to save her lover from the gallows in Jagger's sepulchral rendering of the title tune...
Elizabeth Taylor is riveting as the mad housewife who toys with her husband played by Richard Burton. Both won Oscars for their roles, mesmerizing and frightening audiences with their twisted psychological antics. Taylor is here at her best, too old to play the young vixen, not old enough to be middle-aged...
...easy to make this stuff look foolish and trivial," says Tor Books' Nielsen Hayden. "After all, a lot of everyone's daily life is foolish and trivial. I mean, really, smileys? Housewives in Des Moines who log on as VIXEN...
...women as bad guys," says producer Lynda Obst (The Fisher King). "It's a reflection, I think, of men's fears about women." Basic Instinct, plus The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Single White Female, made 1992 the Year of the Killer Woman -- of the vixen, nanny or best friend who uses sex as the appetizer for destruction. And 1993 could be the Year of the Woman as Door Prize. In Honeymoon in Vegas, Mad Dog and Glory and the forthcoming Indecent Proposal, starring Robert Redford and Demi Moore, a young woman is the gift one man offers another...
...more, thanks to Waters, who wrote Heathers, the brilliant 1989 tale of feminine competitiveness and desperation (and on Batman Returns got story help from Sam Hamm and dialogue "normalizing" from Wesley Strick). "We didn't want to make her a macho woman," he says, "or a sultry, coquettish uber-vixen curling on a penthouse couch. We wanted her tied deep into female psychology. Female rage is interesting: we made her a mythic woman you can sympathize with. Catwoman isn't a villain, and she isn't Wonder Woman fighting for the greater good of society. That has no meaning...