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Article: The Opposite of Sex.
- Article from:
- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- May 26, 1998
- Author:
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Think Anne Baxter in All About Eve, without the career agenda. Think Barbara Stanwyck in Double Indemnity; without the guile. Think Lana Turner in The Postman Always Rings Twice, without the day job. Think Bette Davis in Of Human Bondage, without the phony English accent.
If you put them all together, you have some notion of Dedee Truitt, the cunning little vixen played by Christina Ricci in The Opposite of Sex. At 16, Dedee makes these seasoned connivers look like Camp Fire girls. In Don Roos's breathtakingly astringent directing debut, this Louisiana miss sets new standards of chutzpah and self-servingness for all of celluloid's white trash women to follow.
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