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	<title>Alt Film Guide &#187; The Women</title>
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		<title>Norma Shearer: Proudly and Inescapably Neurotic</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 21:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[A Free Soul]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lady of the Night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mick LaSalle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norma Shearer]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg]]></category>
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Two radically different Norma Shearer characters: as loving (ditched) wife and mother  in The Women, with Joan Crawford and Rosalind Russell (top); as a woman with a penchant for pointed feathers in Lady of the Night (bottom). She also enjoyed to be slapped around by Clark Gable in A Free Soul (below right)

Mike LaSalle on Norma Shearer:
&#34;Shearer was at her best in the films no one sees: her silents. When you see her in the masterpieces she made with Monta Bell &#8211; or even in fluff, such as Lady of Chance &#8211; there&#8217;s no question that she was a great silent-film actress. In the talkies, the work is uneven, sometimes in curious ways. &#8230; Generally, I think the mistake [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE WOMEN Remake in the Works</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Oct 2004 07:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Soares</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Annette Bening]]></category>
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According to Variety, Clare Boothe Luce&#8217;s mordant comedy The Women may be headed for the big screen for the third time in 65 years. With New Line as the potential distributor, the new remake would be the feature-film début (as writer-director) of Diane English, best known as the creator and writer of the TV series Murphy Brown. 
Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Sandra Bullock, and Ashley Judd are currently in negotiations to appear in the film, while Uma Thurman has been mentioned as a possible addition to the stellar cast. (Bening is supposed to take over the old Norma Shearer role, all sweetness and light &#8212; which would mean that Meg Ryan would be playing against type, as a scheming husband [...]]]></description>
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