This month marks the thirtieth anniversary of a that unleashed a torrent of feminist criticism, scared untold numbers of husbands into avoiding marital infidelity, and became the world’s highest-grossing movie of the year. Three decades later, Fatal Attraction remains a cultural touchstone. Back in February, for example, Saturday Night Live the 1987 thriller in a skit that portrayed White House adviser Kellyanne Conway (played by Kate McKinnon) as a deranged stalker who appears at CNN anchor Jake Tapper’s apartment to demand time on his show. After Tapper (played by Beck Bennett) rebuffs her attempts at seduction, McKinnon’s Conway threatens him with a knife, before accidentally falling out the window and miraculously surviving (“I am fine, but I do only have three lives left,” she says). Many viewers found the skit to be, in the of Boston Globe columnist Joan Vennochi, “creepy and sexist”—the same complaint that feminists lodged against Fatal Attraction itself. ![]() ![]() Which prompts an interesting question: In the social and cultural climate of 2017—a climate saturated with identity politics, grievance-mongering, and hair-trigger reactions to perceived offenses—could a film like Fatal Attraction actually get made? It almost didn’t get made in 1987—not because of feminist objections, but because of concerns that moviegoers wouldn’t feel comfortable “rooting for” a philandering husband. As novelist Lisa Zeidner in Slate around the time of the film’s silver anniversary: The surprise international blockbuster had to claw its way to screen. Every studio passed. Hollywood decreed that a cheating husband could simply not be sympathetic. So screenwriter James Dearden made straying lawyer Dan Gallagher (Michael Douglas) more of a likeable “everyman” and Alex Forrest (Glenn Close), his one-weekend stand, spookier, more manipulative. For those unfamiliar with the plot of Fatal Attraction (spoiler alert!), the Glenn Close character, Alex Forrest, is a single, mid-30s publishing-company editor who develops an unhealthy, and ultimately homicidal, obsession with Michael Douglas’s Dan Gallagher, a happily married father. Aug 04, 2017 (CNN) It's a story made. 'Fatal Attraction' convict wants to clear name 01:23. Your best refinance rates for Fall 2017. Paid Partner Content; Bankrate. S7/EP3| Airdate: Sep 25, 2017| Runtime: 33:00. College Student Ardena Carter moves from a rough area in L.A. To a small town in Georgia, where she meets t See the Video fatal attraction Hotel Horror. S7/EP2| Airdate: Sep 18, 2017| Runtime: 33:28. A mystery falls over Memphis when Sony Millbrook and LaKeith. ![]() ![]()
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