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This handsomely crafted studio production, unaccountably left to languish for a year in the Warner Bros. vault, comes from an unlikely auteur: poverty- row director Abel Ferrara, whose earlier work, from Ms. 45 to Bad Lieutenant, is a gallery of Grunge Guignol. Somehow, flanked by five scripters (including his regular collaborator Nicholas St. John), he managed to stoke his tale with the eerie subtlety of the best old B movies...
...find this attitude chilling, not only for the particular disregard in this case of Ms. Chesson and other individuals, but for it's larger ramifications. By this rationale, if Jones says (for example), "Smith is widely known to be a homosexual," and Smith, when contacted by a Crimson reporter, says "I don't want to talk to you," and hangs up, because he doesn't care to discuss his sexual orientation with the reporter, on or off the record, the reporter is now justified to put Jones' statement in print...
With that, Ms. Werner grasped us firmly by the ear and showed us the door. That evening, as we sipped our lonely pint in the neighborhood pub, we reflected that perhaps a career in journalism was not for us. On the other hand, we didn't know what was. How we envied the Ms. Werners of the world, who could jet off to Aruba whenever they felt sulky...
...MS. WERNER: I'd be delighted. I'm pleased that you're interested. That's what I'm here for: to nurture a spark of interest in people that they in turn will be able to fashion into...
Then it occurred to us that Ms. Werner must have the answer. Of course! It was perfect! We wanted to drop everything and rush over to her boudoir immediately, but we restrained ourselves. For we felt sure that the answer would be revealed in her next production...