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Romney, too, emphasized the length of Kennedy's tenure, but by declaring "it's time for a change"--using those words four times in the first five minutes of his speech alone. He pointed out increases in crime and welfare problems, since Kennedy took office 32 years ago, and said, "It's time to replace the philosophy of the 1960s with the philosophy...
Hirasaki said he tried on various wigs at the Boston Costume Store before he finally decided on one with black shoulder length hair. Graham said he cut himself countless times while shaving his legs...
...obviously recognized her talent, because not long after he selected her as assistant editor for "Silence of the Lambs." Her experience impressed enough people at PBS to make her one of the 12 people out of 3,000 to be awarded a substantial grant to fund her first feature-length documentary film. "She Lives To Ride" (see review) opened one week ago at the Coolidge Corner theater. Stone half-seriously calls the PBS grant "one-stop shopping"--it provided her enough money, up-front, to make her first major film...
Alice Stone's first feature-length documentary "She Lives to Ride" is a compendium of portraits of women who ride motorcycles, interspersed with archival footage of women who rode hot wheels in America's past. Stone reiterates in interviews that her main goal for this film was to show images of empowered women. She is entirely successful, and in addition she manages to take a political stance without being heavy-handed. The director skillfully chips away at the monolithic image of the female biker that constructs women bikers as crass, ugly, leather-clad renegade dykes, by portraying five different women...
...bikers cruising through electric storms, or her moving clips of lone women serenely speeding down the highway made me and the 53-year-old next to me agree that when we reached 60, that's where we wanted to be. Understated and fluid, Alice Stone's first feature-length film should remain just that--her very first. It's nice to know that when and if she ever hits Hollywood, Stone's movies probably won't make too many compromises...