Word: womanned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fields, and plucked her from the backseat of Burt's van, where she last displayed her talents--prone--in Smokey and the Bandits. In Norma Rae, Ritt allows Fields aging starlet cuteness to work for her. A sassy, kick-around mill worker, Norma Rae is a woman cashing in on the vestiges of squirrel-mouthed, cheerleader prettiness. The story is hokey, but it plays. Widowed by a beer brawl and left with two children, one illegitimate, Norma Rae is trapped in a one-industry, two-bit, sexist little town. She marries a muscle-bound teddy-bear, but she only comes...
Written late in Shaw's career, Heartbreak House unfolds against the backdrop of World War I. It opens almost like an Agatha Christie murder mystery: a young girl, accompanied her fiance and father, comes to a strange country house, invited by a woman she doesn't know all that well. The house is bulging with a variety of guests, to who terms like "wacky" and "zany" cannot be too strongly applied. A burglar enters the premises, as does the long-lost daughter of one of the guests. Relationships among the characters are tangled--nobody is quite what he appears...
What can you say about a restaurant that hires a woman in a long evening dress to sit with her back to the crowd and play Judy Collins on the harp? The Cafe Promenade is trying hard to be classy, but hasn't exactly pulled...
Then, at 13 miles we hit the Wellesley hill--and the Wellesley girls. One male friend described it like this: "For the first time I knew what a woman must feel like when she walks past a construction site." A hint for the guys: beware of bottom pinchers...
...sequence is so farcically overstated that it is not much more than a mistake in tone. The rape of Carradine's sanity is not so easily dismissed. It cannot be integrated with the decently questing character Shire has developed. We do not believe this woman is so desperate, or that she has an adequate excuse for her destructive behavior. It is also hard to accept the ending. Why should Jordan, having been treated with such casual cruelty, come back for more? What makes him think that Diane has changed? It all seems like a desperate reach for an upbeat...