Word: winona
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...days, the finalists frolicked in the Big Apple. They sat for makeovers, saw "Tommy" on Broadway and met the cast backstage, and answered an interviewer's questions for the PBS show "In the Mix." To top off their New York experience, the Sassiest Girl finalists spotted Dee-Lite and Winona Ryder at the ultra-trendy Time Cafe. On their second day in Manhattan, Malikah and the other finalists were peppered with a wide variety of questions, including one about President Clinton's health care proposal. The interrogators included Sassy editors and writers, as well as "some guy named Etienne from...
Predictably enough, Newland ends up giving the liberal countess a lot more than just the benefit of the doubt. Unfortunately, he's engaged--and to Winona Ryder, no less! Winona plays the idiotic but socially savvy May Welland (a huge come-down from her kicky roles in "Heathers," "Beetle-juice," and "Edward Scissorshands...
Much of the fault lies with the principal actors. Although it is of course unpleasant to criticize Daniel, Michelle or Winona, it is this reviewer's loathsome task to report that none of them is anything to write home about. Their characters are predictable and devoid of development. Certainly, they portray individuals locked into position by tight-laced mores. However, since the movie purports to examine or question the hegemony of these mores, one could reasonably expect more than Daniel's impotent teeth-grinding, Michelle's little huffs and puffs while deep kissing, and Winona's starry-eyed smiles...
...Daniel Day-Lewis) is a true romantic gentleman. He is romantic because he wants to shrug off the opera cape of domestic respectability and follow his heart to hell with the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). He is a gentleman because, having already declared his love to pretty May Welland (Winona Ryder), he is bound to behave honorably. He knows that when passion and propriety collide, only bitter defeat may rise from the wreckage...
...Dracula is the world's oldest man, he is also the first man of the modern sexual revolution, awakening the erotic impulse in young women like flirtatious Lucy (Sadie Frost) and chaste Mina (Winona Ryder). They have known only puppy love; now they will taste wolf lust. And yet Dr. Van Helsing (Anthony Hopkins), who would purge Dracula's spirit from their bodies, is working his white magic on the wrong subjects. Dracula is the cursed soul in need of exorcism. He has "come across oceans and time" to find it. And only Mina, the avatar of his dead wife...