Re: RARA-AVIS: Angie hit back on TV
RMINOT@aol.com
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 10:19:41 EDT
For what it's worth, Angie Dickinson starred in "Policewoman,"
a TV series
that ran in the 70s, in which she played a detective considered
"hard" for
those times who used her considerable sexual appeal to great
advantage. (It
wasn't a good series, but it retains a certain cultural
fascination.) It
crossed my mind when I first saw De Palma's "Dressed to Kill"
that he was
deliberately subverting her tough television persona by making
her the almost
unbearably helpless victim. Many feminists got pretty mad at De
Palma, but
they've never been known for their sense of irony, let alone
humor.
Reeves
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