City on Fire: Commentary by Lou Proyect

[Michael Hoover]

look at the _Alien_ series and _The Terminator_ & _The Terminator 2_,
and you'll see that tough girls's toughness tend to be figured as 
originating from or resulting in motherhood, symbolic or literal.
Yoshie

another belated post...

Sigourney Weaver's warrior becomes a complete woman as a surrogate
mother in *Aliens*.  Susan Sarandon's lawyer is rescued by the
11 yr old boy she is defending in *The Client*.  Diana Muldaur's
brusque lawyer plunges to her death in an empty elevator shaft in
*LA Law*.  Karen Sillas' police detective is timid with a male
colleague following her tough questioning of him during an internal
affairs investigation in *Under Suspicion*.  Punishment, even death, 
awaits the childless careerist (Glenn Close/*Fatal Attraction*), the 
pleasure seeker (Lisa Fiorentino/*Jade*), and the sexually 
transgressive (Uma Thurman/*Even Cowgirls Get the Blues*).  Michael Hoover