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Kathleen Turner, sexy star of many 70’s and 80’s films, and Alicia Silverstone, who
came to fame in a notorious Aerosmith music video and went on to a successful teen film
career
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have recently maintained a similarly militant stance about their unwillingness to
maintain a sylph-like Hollywood weight, while starring together in a Broadway revival of The
Graduate which calls for the older Turner
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s nude appearance. Her reviews have been
fabulous and blaze a trail for the ability of audiences and critics alike to find an older and
zaftig woman attractive.
10. Technically this film is not a
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romance,
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since the romance is only a part of the film.
We thought the romance in particular, however, was worth discussing for our purposes, so we
include it in this category.
11. We are indebted to Andrea
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s colleague Pat Gill for this insight about Angela
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s virginity,
and to her colleague Paula Treichler for general discussions of the compariosn between
Wonder Boys and American Beauty.
12. Livingstone (1990) finds that viewers of the prime-time soap Dallas were faced with a
similar dilemma; most female characters were either strong and evil, or weak and good.
Convention