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- From: jfw@rome.mti.sgi.com (john fergus wilkinson)
- Subject: Re: Last night on television
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- References: <1992Dec22.174504.24772@panix.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:31:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.174504.24772@panix.com>, mara@panix.com (Mara Chibnik) writes:
- |>
- |> PBS, in the American Playhouse series, ran the Canadian film
- |> _Strangers in Good Company_, about a group of women who are
- |> no longer "of a certain age" stranded in the middle of nowhere
- |> when their bus breaks down.
- |>
- |> Even my spouse, who grudgingly gave up our more usual
- |> action-packed Monday night fare, was captivated. (And we
- |> certainly wouldn't have seen it if Tovah Hollander hadn't
- |> phoned-- just before I went out to lunch with Emily Rizzo--
- |> to let me know it was happening.)
- |>
- |> Now, if the preceding cast of characters isn't enough name
- |> dropping to provide the ObMotss, one of the characters
- |> comes out to another in as gentle a conversation as you
- |> could imagine. Well, actually, there are lots of comings
- |> out, but only one, I think, as a lesbian.
- |>
- |> My favorite part: the panty-hose fishnet. Both when they
- |> set it up and when it works.
- |>
- |>
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