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Article: Paperbacks; Books offer movie enthusiasts a look beyond the big screens Movie `wimpettes' defined; directors talk about the craft; drive-ins get nostalgic look.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- March 21, 1999
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If tonight's Academy Awards show whets your appetite for more on film, a number of new books might help.
"Brave Dames and Wimpettes," by Susan Isaacs (Ballantine Books, 160 pages, $8.95), is the latest volume in the Library of Contemporary Thought. Isaacs, a novelist and screenwriter, is annoyed with the way women have been portrayed in film and fiction and feels the public has been far too accepting of it. Women, she says, talk a good game but fade when it counts.
"I miss the Jane Eyres, my heroes, the brave dames I always admired and sometimes loved," Isaacs writes. "Too many of today's female protagonists are still tremulous, willfully naive, ...