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From: msc@saber.UUCP (Mark Callow)
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Subject: Re: in the confort of your tv screen (Tightrope spoiler)
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Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 13:11:08 EDT
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> Chuqui writes about "Tightrope"
>     big gripe: Eastwood's girlfriend teaches anti-rape self defense, and
>     yet when she is attacked and given an opening to really do some damage
>     to the attacker, she just sits there and waits for the police to come
>     to rescue her. A BIG break in character, and they completely miss a
>     scene they set up quite well earlier when she was doing a number on an
>     example dummy.

Either you fell asleep or the version on your video tape wasn't the same as
that shown on Showtime last Sunday night.  Genevieve Bujold stabbed her
attacker with a pair of scissors.  I distinctly remember the blood spurting
out (ugh!).  She most definitely didn't sit there and wait to be rescued.
So she didn't kick him in the balls like she did the dummy.  Is that such
a break in character?
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