Parker can't redeem this messy mystery

The Boston Globe;  March 3, 2007 ;     380 words ...Television Review / The Robber Bride Starring: Mary-Louise Parker, Wendy Crewson, Susan...Tonight, 8-10 So I like a little foreplay. "The Robber Bride," based on Margaret Atwood's 1993 novel, jumps right...give the movie a little bit of distinction. "The Robber Bride" is about Parker's ...

The Robber Bride.

The Women's Review of Books;  January 1, 1994 ;     700+ words ......darkness. With her new novel, The Robber Bride, Margaret Atwood takes a wild...farce and melodrama to concoct Zenia--evil incarnate, bad to the...that brought them together, if Zenia can be called a catastrophe...been seduced and betrayed by Zenia, also an acquaintance from...

THE ROBBER BRIDE, by Margaret Atwood; Doubleday/Nan A. Talese ($24, 466...

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 3, 1993 ;     700+ words ......virtually every level, ``The Robber Bride'' is a huge bruise of a book...good here. Atwood's bride is Zenia, a withering beauty who may...lovers, children and friends, Zenia skims along on a stream of...assault of her ill will. ``Zenia,'' hisses one battle-scarred...

Reconnecting with the Past: Personal Hauntings in Margaret Atwood's The...

Papers on Language & Literature;  September 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ......traditions and perspectives, The Robber Bride becomes a creation or rather...the coincidental. Thus, Zenia's physical reemergence...Jacobi 357). While The Robber Bride provides a demonstration...central sychronistic event--Zenia's reunion with the heroines...the opening of the novel, ...

More Thrills and Chills from Margaret Atwood

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 31, 1993 ;     700+ words ...The Robber Bride By Margaret Atwood. Doubleday...read like thrillers. The Robber Bride is no exception. It opens...motives of a woman named Zenia. Zenia, it is immediately obvious...curiosity about the treacherous Zenia, Atwood makes "an arbitrary...

Atwood on Oxygen.(SHOW)(TUNING IN TO TV)

The Washington Times;  March 2, 2007 ;     700+ words ......original film, The Robber Bride, turns out to be...They belong to Zenia Arden, a Toronto...reason to want Zenia dead. This femme...things lift The Robber Bride above the common...her when told of Zenia's supposed background...as the devilish Zenia. A different ...

'Weeds' mom weds Oxygen's 'Bride'.(Oxygen Media L.L.C. contracts...

Daily Variety;  August 4, 2006 ;     239 words ......Oxygen original movie The Robber Bride. Thesp has signed to topline...premiere in early 2007. Robber Bride is an adaptation of the...betrayed by the manipulative Zenia (Parker). When she is mysteriously...Shaftsbury Films will produce. Robber Bride is the second ...

Situating Canada: the shifting perspective of the postcolonial other in...

American Review of Canadian Studies;  September 22, 2005 ;     700+ words ......her eighth novel, The Robber Bride, in 1993; it marks a...critical dialog. (1) The Robber Bride is a novel concerned...and I suggest that The Robber Bride articulates a peculiarly...nation. Identity in The Robber Bride is frequently shifting...and uncertain. In The ...

TELEVISION; Steal a peek at 'Robber,' 'Robin Hood'

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......than average. The movie is "The Robber Bride," based on Atwood's 1994 bestseller...down on the scenery. Parker plays Zenia Arden, a woman who has perfected...Curtiz. WHEN TO WATCH What: "The Robber Bride" When: 7 p.m. Saturday, repeated...

The Robber Bride.(Movie review)

Daily Variety;  March 2, 2007 ;     528 words ......James. Running time: 120 MIN. Zenia Arden Mary-Louise Parker John...Augusta Tatiana Maslany The Robber Bride is a solid mystery that delivers...Mary-Louise Parker stars as Zenia Arden, a classic frenemy--the...into the mysterious death of Zenia. There's no body, but the crime scene contains ...

rumour

The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms;      28 words ...rumour rumour has it it is rumoured. 1993 Margaret Atwood The Robber Bride It's a good thing Roz didn't invest in that one, rumour has it that the backers are losing a shirt or two.

Atwood Enjoys Surprising Readers

Chicago Sun-Times;  December 26, 1993 ;     700+ words ......the novels Cat's Eye and The Robber Bride (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, $24), her latest publication. The Robber Bride was inspired by the Brothers...unscrupulous woman named Zenia. The innocent village girls...Much of the news in "The Robber Bride" is bad. The Gulf War has...

Scene, symbol, subversion: The evolving uses of mapping in Margaret...

American Review of Canadian Studies;  September 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ......Edible Woman (1969) or the later The Robber Bride (1993), this geographical precision...intervene between The Edible Woman and The Robber Bride. More importantly, she grasps the oppressive...of this essay. Most particularly, The Robber Bride requires both more contextualization...

Margaret Atwood up to her usual chilling tricks in 'The Robber Bride'....

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  February 2, 1994 ;     700+ words ......with her new novel, ``The Robber Bride'' (Nan A. Talese/Doubleday...attractive, mysterious woman named Zenia. Her prey are three middle...negotiations for a film of ``The Robber Bride'' are ongoing, and she's not...Anjelica Huston could play Zenia. Or we could say Cher. Or we...

What's On.("The Robber Bride")("Robin Hood")(Movie review)

Multichannel News;  February 26, 2007 ;     381 words ......Linda Haugsted and Kent Gibbons The Robber Bride Saturday - March, 3 (8 p.m.) Don't say...where this is going as you watch The Robber Bride on Oxygen. You'll be wrong. Despite...of murder-mystery. Charismatic viper, Zenia Arden (Mary Louise Parker, Weeds ) is at its center. Zenia ...