Word: warshawski
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...movie summer promises more women who take their life -- and a gun -- in their own hands. Kathleen Turner will play a tough private eye in V.I. Warshawski. Even the budget-bustin' action-adventure Terminator 2 offers a strong female figure: Linda Hamilton is an embattled mother powerful enough to square off alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger...
...films will duke it out all summer. Or maybe they will cream each other and leave space for late May's gal-buddy movie, Thelma and Louise, with Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis. The success of T&L, or of Soapdish with Sally Field and Whoopi Goldberg, or of Warshawski with Kathleen Turner would mark the welcome infiltration of female-star vehicles in the boys' camp of summer movies...
...affluent, well dressed and homosexual. This subgenre is bicoastal; see George Baxt's novels, beginning with A Queer Kind of Death. The protagonist is a gay New York City police detective named Pharaoh Love. Other successful challenges to the bruiser class are Sara Paretsky's Chicago sleuth, Ms. V.I. Warshawski (Deadlock), and George C. Chesbro's Robert Frederickson, a dwarf with a doctorate in criminology and a black belt in karate...