City on Fire: Commentary by Lou Proyect

Michael Hoover hoov at freenet.tlh.fl.us
Tue Sep 28 08:38:28 PDT 1999


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



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