ENTERTAINMENT AS A WAY OF LIFE
MOVIELINE
April 1996
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Please Refrain From Sucking
Although she protests that she is nobody's "role model." Jamie Lee Curtis demonstrates how to stay sane while managing a 20-year career and a decade-old marriage she says what she things does as she likes and doesn't give damn what anybody thinks.
There Oughta be a Law!
Is the dumbing down of films about female lawyers just further proof of sexism in Hollywood, or a deliberate salvo in a larger war against feminism? Our dauntless reporter has prepared this brief on the legal antics of everyone from Cher, Cindy and Demi to Rebecca, Jessica and Julia.
A Career with a View
Diane Lane, an actress who's hardly 30 but has been on screen for 16 years, shows us her slick L.A. aerie and gives us a tour of some interesting Tinseltown terrain while she's at it.
A Little R-E-S-P-E-C-T
We asked 50 Tinseltown women to tell us what female characters they've admired in the movies--and why.
The Ladies' Man
What do Meryl Streep, Judy Davis, Andie MacDowell and Mercedes Ruehl have in common? Each got one of the best roles of her career thanks to Richard LaGravenese. Here the screenwriter of The Fisher King, The Ref, The Bridges of Madison County, A Little Princess and Unstrung Heroes talks about why women are more interesting than men, and what it's like writing a film about beauty for Barbra Streisand.