Word: woman
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...Pfeiffer got together for another bedroom drama set in France. Dangerous Liaisons raised the former Grease 2 star from the ranks of the extremely pretty people who make movies into the category of highly respectable Oscar-nominated actress. It was a smart career move for a 30-year-old woman. Chéri is the smart move of a 51-year-old actress, and that is a radically different thing...
...most subtle scene Frears has ever shot, but Pfeiffer's expression, wry, exasperated, sad, is the payoff. Lea is tragically self-aware: while enjoying afternoon tea with former colleagues, which tends to be an amusing, banter-filled affair, she shudders with revulsion at the sight of a portly woman of about her own age - although less well preserved - clutching what looks to be a teenager to her décolletage...
...might be considered part of the tedious cougar trend we keep hearing about, although it is more of a refutation, an invitation to cool our jets and act our age. The movie speaks to issues of traditional desirability and dignity, specifically to the point in a woman's life when she either makes decisions about how well those two qualities can exist together or has them made for her. If there is an art-house programmer out there who's looking for a double feature, book Woody Allen's latest - Whatever Works, in which Larry David hooks up with...
...much of the '80s, Fawcett was the monarch of the TV-movie biopics, spinning plausible impersonations of heiress Barbara Hutton, photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White and Nazi hunter Beate Klarsfeld. In the 1984 The Burning Bed, she earned an Emmy nomination (her first of three) as a real-life battered woman who sets the rack of her shame on fire, with her abusive husband in it. She took a similar part - another woman who exacts vengeance from the man who raped her - in William Mastrosimone's off-Broadway play and then 1986 movie Extremities. Facing every sordid challenge with a schoolgirl...
...identified with suffering women was Fawcett that she could lend suspense to another true-life horror story, the 1989 Small Sacrifices, in which she's a mother bringing her three injured children to a hospital, claiming they were attacked by a "bushy-haired man." (The woman had assaulted the children herself.) The actress snagged another Emmy nomination for this bold emotional about-face...