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Sheila's former girlfriend

posted 8 years ago by pouncemo
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JoBeth Williams' character tells Amanda that the woman Sheila (Lorraine Bracco) lived with for years ran off with a French architect. I always thought that meant she ran off with a man. But does it?

I realized how sexist that is to assume that "architect" means a man. It could have been a woman French architect. Anyone have thoughts on what was intended?

The reason I thought of this is because I heard a radio story about a 91 year old woman who still works at her architectural firm!

Also, I picked up that the reason it hurt Lorraine's character so much was that the girlfriend left for a man.

Anyway, I'm surprised this film has so many threads and current posters & topics! It is 25 years old this year - I cannot believe it!

[–] BlueNight87 (49) 4 years ago

Haha I thought it was a man too. No reason.

[–] IMDBrefugee (435) 4 years ago

Now that you mentioned it, good point. I figure though, powerful people often date powerful people. Sheila is powerful, and likes women. So it's a good bet that her former girlfriend was yet another powerful person....that ran off with another powerful person - the architect.

Also when Sheila says "I want to show you off". I don't think she'd want to take her date around a bunch of nobodies to brag, all the people at that party were likely powerful or had some kind of influence.