Word: goddess
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WHEN BRITISH WRITER Anthony Summers called his 1985 biography of Marilyn Monroe Goddess, the title was probably more aptly ironic than he realized. For if a goddess is beautiful, enchanting and powerful, she is also, above all, immortal. Monroe's mortality, on the other hand, became all too apparent when she died of an overdose 25 years...
Seymour Krelborn (Rick Moranis) is a skid row nerd, languishing in Mushnik's Flower Shop. He loves the tramp goddess Audrey (Ellen Greene), but she too willingly suffers the bondage and discipline of the notorious Orin Scrivello, D.D.S. (Steve Martin). Not until Seymour strikes a Faustian bargain with a talking plant he calls Audrey II does our hero find the girl of his dreams. And the killer vegetation of his most festering nightmares...
Moore also offers other classes, both on transformation and on crystal technique. In December, she will offer a workshop on "The Goddess Among Us," a class that will focus on "helping women to discover the force within them. It will help them see God as a female force...
...Jane Fonda last summer, one of the journalists panicked. "I have to be thin to meet Jane Fonda," thought the columnist, who then proceeded to binge compulsively on bagels. "Instead of eating one, I ate three." An understandable lapse for mere mortals summoned into the presence of the U.S. Goddess of Fitness. But the nervous nosher was a no less exalted figure: Jane Brody, the nation's High Priestess of Health. At the meeting of the two unrestrained Janes, though, it all worked out true to form. Brody, after politely complimenting Fonda on her latest exercise tape...
That doesn't mean minority students don't appear in other productions. Monica Sams, for instance, has played roles in several Loeb Mainstage productions, including Wuthering Heights and most recently, as a goddess in The Tempest...