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commentaries on the national nightmare we are awakening from (or to),
while Fred Skolnik imagines an America not too frighteningly different
from the one we have now. And where would we be without mythology?
Robert Cooperman and Christopher Bernard give voice to hitherto voiceless
figures of Greek legend, and as we stride resolutely with Bernard's
minotaur into the labyrinth of a new year, anticipating death or freedom,
we certainly hope it's the latter that awaits us all at the other
end of the dark. The particulars from a conversation: - Asian-American female filmmaker, eldest sister of three. Parents divorced. - Filmmaker has an Egyptian girlfriend (Coptic Christian background). Girlfriend's traditional father insists her daughter's lesbianism is a "phase." - Filmmaker, girlfriend, and girlfriend's father all live in L.A. 
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- Girlfriend is very attached to father, and is reluctant to tell
father about her relationship with filmmaker. Filmmaker is annoyed
with girlfriend's reticence and father's physical proximity. - Father has vacation home in Egypt, and has invited girlfriend and all her friends to spend holiday there. Filmmaker is uncomfortable at such a prospect. - Girlfriend's father is himself having a secret affair with a Latino girl half his age. Her English and his Spanish are both lousy. - Filmmaker's father has lost job and declared bankruptcy due to gambling problem. Selling of house to pay off debts has only incurred new debts, under the current real estate climate. - Filmmaker's father is currently involved with woman who is addicted to gambling. - Filmmaker's mother has married a Caucasian Canadian man, retired executive. Stepfather is lazy around house,  |
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