Word: wolfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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They were more than a little surprised when, three weeks later, Galluccio's arch-rival, Alice K. Wolf, and her campaign staff set up camp in the empty store on the corner, just three doors down...
Devlin, 33, comes from a movie family (his father is a producer; his actress mother appeared in a '60s Star Trek episode, "Wolf in the Fold," as a princess killed by the spirit of Jack the Ripper); adapting Fred Allen's famous jape about television, he says, "Imitation is the sincerest form of Hollywood." He knows that movies are to steal from. "More than any other genre," Devlin says, "science fiction cannot deny what comes before it. So, when we did a science-fiction film, especially one like this, where we wanted to have fun, we said...
...Power of Beauty is a sprawling work, simultaneously a personal journey and a psychosocial examination of an accelerating phenomenon. Unlike Naomi Wolf, who in her 1992 book, The Beauty Myth, portrayed the elevation of beauty as manipulative and ultimately sadistic, Friday reaches older, muddier and much more happily self-satisfied conclusions. In the end, she isn't angry at the power of beauty, and she seems to have come to terms with her own. After all, it certainly is a positive wish that every woman, from stooping adolescent to middle-aged overachiever, have a chance to float in a foam...
...falls for the earnestly handsome automechanic Guy(Nino Castelnuovo) who ruins everything by being drafted. Before leaving for Algeria, he somewhat deviously impregnates her, perhaps to be sure she'll 'wait for him'. But his plan backfires when the pregnant, helpless Genvieve is married off to the rich, wolf-like diomand dealer Roland Cassard (Marc Michel). Guy, of course, is devastated, and also, in the logic of such things, returns to Cherbourg a cripple...
...series of break-ins was reported last week at the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine, resulting in the theft of several Lampoon artifacts including brass dishes, a wolf pelt, a bottle of 1990 Chenin Anjou and an autographed copy of The Poetry of Leonard Nimoy...