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...Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times critic, snarled that it contained "some of the most odious harpies ever collected in one play." It nevertheless became a huge hit, despite the fact that there has never been any reason to question his judgment - not when the 1939 movie version came along, and certainly not now as we cringingly confront writer-director Diane English's completely miscalculated remake...
...passage where Mary goes to Reno for her "quickie" divorce (there was, in those days, a six-week residency requirement). More important, she has given most of The Women's women jobs (notably Annette Bening's Sylvie, a hard-pressed magazine editor). She seems to want to convert her version of the play into a tract for our times; you know, something about the difficulties of having a family and a career simultaneously...
...that does not address the piece's fundamental problem, namely that it is not now and never has been funny. Or even human. In the previous movie version, as in this one (and I'll bet in the play itself) all the actresses strike comedic poses. They sashay about, rolling their eyes, pouting their lips, making big gestures and talking really fast. It's essentially an antique theatrical manner, the falsity of which the movie camera, dialing in for its close-ups (and even its two shots) exposes as relentlessly now as it did 69 years ago. No one ever...
...born - a multiracial country whose greatest cultural and economic strength is its diversity. It is the country where our children already live and that our parents will never really know, a country with a much greater potential for justice and creativity - and perhaps even prosperity - than the sepia-tinted version of Main Street America. But that vision is not sellable right now to a critical mass of Americans. They live in a place, not unlike C. Vann Woodward's South, where myths are more potent than the hope of getting past the dour realities they face each...
...even briefly joined the media in a room where Apple's new product line was being shown. He walked under his own steam, of course, easily and without any apparent discomfort. While he remains impossibly thin - I doubt he weighs 100 lbs. wet - he actually looked jaunty. (The new version of the iPod Nano was billed, by the way, as "The Thinnest iPod Ever...