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...also suspect that the portrait of his mother is partly fanciful. She has the melodramatic sulfur of the mad mom in one of David Sedaris' "memoir" stories, the domineering vindictiveness of a shrew-mother from 40s movies. In fact, she's played in the film by none other than Ann Savage, the virulent megabitch Vera in Edgar G. Ulmer's cheapo noir classic Detour. That was 62 years ago, and now, at 86, she is the icy Queen Maddin, standing in for all the city's overbearing women. (As narrator, he says, "Never underestimate the tenacity of a Winnipeg mother...
...know. Debbie has to be a shrew, and her marriage with Pete a sad charade, to give Alison one more hurdle to jump: that she'll wonder if living with anyone, let alone Ben, is doomed to failure. But here's a little tip to budding screenwriters. If your refutation to questions of plot irregularity is "Because it's a movie!" - and especially if that card has to be played more than a few times (no friends, no abortion, supporting characters who are caricatures, a website subplot that collapses on closer inspection) - then maybe your script has plausibility problems...
...repeatedly groped him throughout their scene. Professor W. James Simpson was the one doing the violating in his scene, where he showed off his dramatic flair by adding in some improvised ass-grabbings of his TF while they performed a scene from “The Taming of the Shrew.” Erenest Burnbaum Professor of Literature Daniel Albright likewise showcased his theatrical prowess, dropping an extemporaneous F-bomb as Iago from “Othello” (don’t remember that from the play). Galena E. Hashozheva, a grad student, managed to impress her audience even...
...others in Fountain’s neighborhood have tried to reconstruct their one-level homes or have opted to simply start new lives in new cities, Fountain has chosen to cope with Hurricane Katrina the way Petruccio deals with his Kate in “The Taming of the Shrew.” He will not bow under her fuss and noise. Neither will he abandon her.‘MUSICIANS’ CITY’Fountain is one of the few who has moved back into this bit of the Upper Ninth Ward. He is little less than...
Harvard sent four of its sailors to Boston College as its No. 7 women’s team earned a fourth-place finish at the Women’s Sloop Shrew Trophy on Sunday. In the A division, senior skipper Jessica Baker and freshman crew Lauren Brants tied for fifth place in the ten-team field, while the blossoming freshman tandem of skipper Roberta Steele and crew Christina Cordeiro finished behind only MIT and Tufts, earning third place in the B division. The team’s strong performance promised to help its overall ranking; seventh was the lowest...