Swigging and snarling Lesley Joseph as Miss
Harridan ...
The foul-mouthed
harridan hopes her daughter Cathy (Jennifer Gibney) will take up the mantle but a dastardly developer, PR Irwin (Dermot Crowley), intervenes with plans to bulldoze the site.
AMERICAN HUSTLE (15) IRVING ROSENFELD (Christian Bale) is a brilliant con man, trapped in a loveless marriage to a
harridan wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), who makes it clear she will demand sole custody of their son if Irving divorces her.
IRVING ROSENFELD (Christian Bale) is a brilliant con man, trapped in a loveless marriage to a
harridan wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), who makes it painfully clear she will demand sole custody of their son if Irving divorces her.
AMERICAN HUSTLE ( 15) IRVING ROSENFELD (Christian Bale) is a brilliant con man, trapped in a loveless marriage to a
harridan wife, Rosalyn (Jennifer Lawrence), who makes it painfully clear she will demand sole custody of their son if Irving divorces her.
While the Paris runways are about androgyny and mixing up sex and gender markers for aesthetic value, Going, founder of the new lesbian-owned and-operated fashion label Saint
Harridan, is filling a longtime need among masculine women like herself.
"I feel in myself and other people a craving for legitimization/validation," says Saint
Harridan founder Mary Going.
Between swigs of already familiar "Terry brandy", the Scouse
harridan shakily improvises from the confines of her chintzy lounge, before morphing, via wig-change and false teeth implants, into Brenda, one of those deluded office femmes fatales to be universally avoided.
Stu's romantic sub-plot, though, lessens the impact of the final showdown with his adulterous,
harridan girlfriend (Harris)..
Sandra Duncan gets her comic timing perfectly right as
harridan Sybil Birling, while David Roper spills blustery egotism as her boasting husband.
Sally Mathews portrayed Anne with grace, perhaps lacking the last ounce of confidence on the opening night, while patricia Bardon was more convincing in Baba's sympathetic moments than as a comic
harridan. peter Bronder's cameo as Sellem was bright and breezy, and the chorus was fabulous, thrillingly rapping out Stravinsky's deliciously angular word setting.
Over the years Vera has softened, transforming from a sharp-tongued hard-faced
harridan to a warm, sympathetic figure capable of touching our emotions.
The truth comes out that Pauline Fowler (Wendy Richard, above) lied about her brain tumour - but Walford's
harridan shows no shame.
(Ben Franklin would surely have an aphorism to share here, about the greasy palm getting the suet, while the vinegar-voiced
harridan walks away empty-handed.)
From here we move to Logan leaving his henpecking,
harridan of a wife to attend a medical symposium at West Virginia's venerated Greenbrier resort.
