Word: matronly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Enlightened and emboldened, Tracy leads picketers against Corky's all-white show. All the ladies are arrested and land in the custody of a nasty prison matron ("Think of me as a mother - who eats her young"). The Von Tussles get sprung because Amber once had done a, let's call it a favor for the governor. Tracy is aghast, as any good Democrat would be, in 1962 or 2000: "Manipulating the judicial system just to win a contest is unethical!" Tracy, alone in her cell, is visited by the now lovestruck Link. "You look beautiful!" he rhapsodizes...
...Haynes' Far from Heaven and Peter Mullan's The Magdalene Sisters. Far from Heaven is inspired by those glossy '50s romances produced by Ross Hunter and directed by Douglas Sirk. Haynes takes the alcoholic husband from Written on the Wind, the race mixing of Imitation of Life and the matron-in-love-with-her-gardener plot of All That Heaven Allows, then trumps them by making the gardener a black man and the alcoholic spouse gay. The film wears its chic, imitation-of-Sirk style like a mink stole at a country-club ball, and as the matron, Julianne Moore...
...turn on them, that their fishermen husbands won't be drowned, that their houses won't be wrecked by typhoons, that their lives will simply turn out well. "I've got four kids, and three are in college," says Xu Fenshan, a thickly built 68-year-old matron, offering evidence that her faith has earned rewards...
...Johnson ’02 and Catherine B. Gowl ’02), two 28-year-old siblings stuck in a permanent childhood. Gowl’s Haley is the first to grab the audience’s attention, shifting back and forth between petty child and fussy matron in a fine schizophrenic act. The production yields no funnier image than the pajama-clad Gowl perched on a plastic-covered easychair like a demented socialite, articulating her concerns about candy distribution...
...supporter Rita Pynoos, who is married to a California developer, to send the gift registry a $5,000 check. Hillary didn't fill a pillowcase with the sterling after the last state dinner. But trolling for soup ladles you can easily afford is as irrational as the Fifth Avenue matron who filches a vial of perfume from the counter at Bergdorf's. Only Freud could sort...