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www.that-movie-site.com - : Does anyone remember The Fox? You know, that Mark Rydell bastardization of the D.H. Lawrence short story about the two women who lived together on a failing farm that doubled as a hotbed of repressed lesbianism? Do you remember being shocked when Sandy Dennis and Anne Heywood kissed, not a lame Jennifer Aniston and Winona Ryder on ''Friends'' type of kiss, but a real movie kiss complete with dramatic build-up, and probably (hey, it's been a while since I've seen it) equally dramatic music? And then do you remember staring at the screen in horror (and probably amusement, if you saw it in the '90s knowing things could never work out for those crazy kids, but that a happy dyke ending is just a Dolly Hall-produced film away) when the ''real'' lesbian of the two died? It wasn't just any death; it was one of the all-time great character punishment deaths, and it was pretty obvious that Dennis' Jill Banford didn't get her comeuppance for being such a whiny, nasally mess. No, it was much more sinister than that... She liked girls! And since she liked girls, her romantic rival, an exceptionally manly Keir Dullea (''Dull'' being the operative word), who walked around in an exceptionally manly way with an exceptionally manly, exceptionally lowered voice, had to be the one to dispose of her. That her character was doomed wasn't enough, she was dispatched when a tree, a tree her girlfriend was too weak to take care of herself, was chopped down in an exceptionally manly manner by Dullea and landed square between her legs (between her legs!), crushing her. Take that, you, you lesbian! more...
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